What do you need to apply?

• A master’s degree (MA, MSc degree or an equivalent one), awarded in Poland or another country, 
• At least a good grade on your graduation diploma,
• You must not be enrolled as a PhD student in another doctoral school.

Applications are submitted electronically through the IRK system. The application fee is PLN 250. Registration  is open in 14 disciplines and there are 128 openings.

Disciplines and number of openings:

• Architecture and Urban Planning – 7 openings,
• Automation, Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Space Technologies – 15 openings,
• Biotechnology – 10 openings,
• Information and Communication Technology – 20 openings,
• Biomedical Engineering – 5 openings,
• Chemical Engineering – 8 openings,
• Civil Engineering, Geodesy and Transport – 9 openings,
• Materials Engineering – 7 openings,
• Mechanical Engineering – 8 openings,
• Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy – 8 openings,
• Mathematics – 4 openings,
• Chemical Sciences – 14 openings,
• Physical Sciences – 9 openings,
• Management and Quality Studies – 4 openings.

Admissions step by step:

1. Contact the selected potential thesis advisor to get their consent and to establish the planned research problem. You can make use of the search engine of thesis advisors and research problems to find a potential advisor. Here you will find a list of thesis advisors, check limits of openings for the advisors, and learn the research fields of interest of potential advisors.
2. Register in the admissions IRK system. Submit the required documents. You have time until 5 August.
3. Between 26 August and 8 September, qualifications interviews will be held.
4. The ranking list is planned to be published on 12 September (importantly, it is not the list of admissions).

5. If you are on the ranking list, you have a few days (15-21 September) to submit additional documents in the IRK system: a document confirming the professional title entitling to apply for admission to the Doctoral School (diploma) and in case of a lack of it, a certificate on passing the diploma examination issued by the Faculty/Institute (if the abovementioned documents were not uploaded to the system earlier) and statement on choosing the doctoral school/academic discipline.

   Candidates holding a diploma of graduation from a country outside of the EU, along with the recruitment documents, submit a certified translation of the diploma into Polish language (if it is in a language other than English) and a diploma supplement, as well as a personalized certificate issued by the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), confirming whether the diploma is equivalent to a Polish diploma, entitles the candidate to continue their education in Poland and if it requires nostrification (formal recognition) or not.

   If the Candidate is waiting for a certificate from NAWA at the time of registration, they should include in the IRK system the so-called recognition statement generated from the NAWA KWALIFIKATOR system and confirmation of submitting documents in the NAWA SYRENA system regarding the issuing of individual information about the diploma, confirming the eligibility of applying for admission to the School.

6. According to the schedule, the list of persons admitted will be published on 25 September. To be admitted to the Doctoral School you need to submit all the required documents, obtain at least 60% of points in the competition and be within the limit of openings laid down for a given academic discipline. After the publication, the Doctoral Students Service Department will inform the persons from the list about the next steps, including the deadlines for submissions of the originals of the admissions documents.
7. The semester begins on 1 October.