Information on the acquisition of certificates

Table of contents

      1. Requirements of the Business Administration group
      2. Requirements of the Economics group
      3. Requirements of the Business Informations Systems group

The PhD Regulations of the Faculty of Business and Economics stipulate that in the scope of your graduation four PhD certificates must be obtained (section 9, subsection 1, No. 5 and No. 6 of the 2018 PhD Regulations). At least two of the four certificates must be obtained in method-oriented lectures (cf. section 9, subsection 1, No. 6). The other two certificates must be obtained in PhD lectures across chairs (e.g. a PhD colloquia).

Requirements of the Business Administration group

  • Attending a method-oriented course can usually be recognized as proof of achievement according to PromO 2018, §9 subsection 1, No. 5 or No. 6. In particular, courses from ...

    the Saxon Doctoral Program in Management Research
    the ProDok Program of VHB e.V.

    can be attented.

  • The attendance and active participation in a cross-professorship doctoral colloquium can be credited as proof in accordance with PromO 2018, § 9 subsection 1, No. 5.  A doctoral colloquium is considered to be cross-professorial if at least two professors and doctoral candidates from at least two professorships participate. Active participation means that the doctoral candidate must give a lecture and write a multi-page abstract of his research results.

  • One of the two certificates to be issued according to PromO 2018, § 9 subsection 1, No. 5 can be provided by a presentation at an established international conference.

Requirements of the Economics group

Doctoral candidates from Economics are required to attend the courses offered by the Central-German Doctoral Program Economics (CDGE). CDGE is a regional doctoral program of the faculties of economics at the universities in Dresden, Leipzig, Halle and Magdeburg, the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle and the ifo branch Dresden.

The chairs of Economics at TU Dresden expects its doctoral candidates to provide the following certificates:

PromO 2018 section 9, subsection 1, No. 6:

  • You have to attend at least two courses from the CGDE Core Program.
  • The Core Program consists of the First-Year Courses and the Special Courses from the fields of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics.
  • First-Year Courses are courses that take place in Halle during the semester. Of these, there are Microeconomic and Econometrics in the winter semester and Macroeconomics in the summer semester.
  • Special Courses take place at the various partner universities. Each of these courses lasts at least 4 days with 6 lessons each day.
  • The two certificates must be from the different areas (Micro, Macro, Econometrics). Since Frontier Courses often have more specific titles, they are assigned to one or two of the areas.

PromO 2018 section 9, subsection 1, No. 5:
Here you have to take part in the colloquium. In order to obtain a certificate, you also  have to present your research results there. Furthermore within a period of two years the attendence at the colloquium and the graduate seminar has to account for at least 50%. External PhD students who don't live in Dresden also have to attend colloquium. On application the attendence can be reduced to seven seesions within two years. As a further certificate you can provide a third CGDE-certificate (First-Year, Special oder Short Course) or a certificate gaines in other PhD modules (e.g. from Business Administration or from the Graduate Academy). 

Requirements of the Business Informations Systems group

The requirements of Business Information Systems group are summarized in a document, which you can download here:  To the document

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