Doctorate and Habilite

The doctorate is considered in Germany as an individual research project. You first need to find a professor who is interested in your research topic and supervises your doctorate. In order to receive a doctorate from the TU Dresden, you must in any case have been officially accepted by the respective faculty as a doctoral student, i.e. confirmed by the doctoral committee.

The Habilitation is used as part of an academic examination procedure to determine teaching qualifications in a scientific subject.

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Doctorate

Promotions always represent a high point in the action at the faculty. The results of the work will be presented public.

The Graduate Academy of TU Dresden

The Graduate Academy is one of the core elements of TUD`s Institutional Strategy to strengthen the university´s Position competing for the best national and international scientists. As your competent contact partner for all questions around the doctoral phase and beyond, it aims at creating University-wide ideal research and working conditions for doctoral candidates and postdocs.

Doctorate and habilitation at the faculty of civil engineering

Admission to doctoral studies requires a university degree in a university study program with a study period of eight semesters. An applicant may only be enrolled as a doctoral student at the faculty of civil engineering when he is admitted as a doctoral candidate in the doctoral list by the PhD board of the faculty. Admission to the doctoral list is linked to the obligation of the applicant to obtain a PhD within the next six years at the faculty of civil engineering.

The habilitation is a proof of special qualifications for research and for independent teaching in a professional discipline. Furthermore the habilitation allows to get a teaching license and to add the additional title „habil.“