Doctorate

You can find the current regulations and procedures governing the doctoral dissertation at the School of Social Sciences here:

Please send us the following forms including attachments to request admission to the list of doctoral candidates. Alternatively, you can also submit the documents in person. Form 1 provides a checklist of all the required attachments. For information on the requirements you need to fulfill to be admitted as a doctoral candidate, please see the regulations and procedures governing the doctoral dissertation dating from 2013.

Please enclose the following forms and an informal letter indicating the names of your evaluators and the chair of the doctoral committee when you submit your doctoral dissertation. We require one copy per evaluator, one copy for the dean’s office and, if applicable, another one for the CDSS. Form 2 provides a checklist of all the required attachments.

Once the display period during which the doctoral dissertation and the evaluations can be reviewed has passed and the dissertation has been accepted, you can schedule your oral defense. Please contact Ms. Magin at least three weeks in advance to book a room.

You can hand in the mandatory copies of your doctoral dissertation after you have passed the oral defense. Please adhere to the provisions and requirements stipulated in section 17 of the regulations and procedures governing the doctoral dissertation dating from 27 June 2013. If you want to publish your dissertation electronically, you can do so on MADOC, the University of Mannheim’s online repository. Please submit the printed copies and, if applicable, the Depositing Electronic Documents form (PDF) to the Office for Doctoral Studies (Andrea Magin).

Contact: Imme Surkamp