What can you do during your PhD? You could, for example, participate in an archaeological mission in Kuwait, work on improving water quality in Poland, or win awards, grants, and scholarships. To make it a reality, you need to successfully complete the recruitment process.

The WUT Doctoral School may admit persons who:

• hold the MA, MSc degree or an equivalent one, awarded in Poland or another country,
• have at least good grade on their graduation diploma,
• are not doctoral students of another doctoral school.

Candidates to the Doctoral School register electronically through the IRK system. The admissions fee is PLN 200. Registration for the summer semestr of academic year 2024/2025 is open in 11 disciplines and there are 32 openings.

Disciplines and number of openings:

• Automation, Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Space Technologies – 5 openings,
• Biomedical Engineering – 3 openings,
• Chemical Engineering – 2 openings,
• Materials Engineering – 4 openings,
• Mechanical Engineering – 3 openings,
• Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy – 3 openings,
• Mathematics – 2 openings,
• Chemical Sciences – 2 openings,
• Physical Sciences – 2 openings,
• Law – 2 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 January.
3. Between 16 January and 22 January, qualifications interviews will be held.
4. The ranking list is planned to be published on 28 January (importantly, it is not the list of admissions).
5. If you are on the ranking list, you have a few days (29 January-2 February) 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 who hold a graduation diploma from a country outside of the EU submit their admissions documents with a certified translation of the diploma into Polish (if it is in a language other than English) and the diploma supplement, as well as a personal confirmation issued by the National Agency for Academic Exchange that their diploma is equivalent to a Polish diploma, entitles to pursue further education in Poland and whether diploma recognition is required.
6. According to the schedule, the list of persons admitted will be published on 7 February. 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 20 February.