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Information for international candidates who are planning to do their PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

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To establish consistent quality guidelines, the Hessian universities have agreed on common standards. They have been documented in the following papers:

» KHU Recommendation for Cooperative Doctorates

» KHU Appendix Quality Standards

For a doctoral procedure at one of the faculties of Goethe University, the general conditions for doctoral regulations, which became operative in December 2012, have to be met.

» Doctoral Regulations (Rahmenpromotionsordnung)

Join two PhD students from the Department of Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology on their very different "PhD journeys".

How can I get a doctoral position? What do I have to consider? How to find a suitable research topic? What opportunities and difficulties will I encounter? The first episode of this podcast series will cover possible answers to these questions.

» Podcast (in German)

A question-and-answer session with Prof. Maresi Nerad concerning the quality of graduate schools and doctoral training programs.

The German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) has provided a clarifying statement on the public debate about quality assurance in doctoral education.