Obtaining a doctoral degree
Introduction
- Why get a doctoral degree
- Arts and Philosophy as host institution
- Possible doctoral degrees
- Doctorate procedure
- Supervisors, advisory committee, examination board
Support
- Doctoral training programme
- Financial support
- Dissertation template
- Printing and binding services
- Psychosical welfare at work
Registration and enrolment
- Key dates
- First enrolment
- Annual re-enrolment
- Final enrolment
- Making changes to your enrolment
- Tuition fee and bench fee
Submission and assessment
- Key dates
- Additional publication condition
- Article-based doctorate
- Submission
- Examination Board
- First deliberation
- Public defence
- Practical aspects, gowns, beret, ...
My role as ...
- Doctoral student
- Administrative supervisor responsible
- Supervisor (= co-supervisor)
- Member of the doctoral advisory committee (DBC)
- Expert in the examination board
- Rapporteur in the examination board
- Chair of the examination board
Documents and more information
- Doctoral regulations of the faculty
- Charter for doctoral students and supervisors
- Faculty guidelines on authorship (staff only)
- Form authorship protocol (.doc)
- Form for requesting small changes to the enrolment (.doc)
- Step-by-step - submitting a dissertation (.pdf) - new
- Form for submitting a dissertation with defence outside Ghent University (.doc)
- List of chairs of the examination boards (.pdf) (in Dutch)
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Dissertation template: how to write a dissertation in Word (in Dutch)
- Guide on how to upload your publications and dissertation in Biblio (academic bibliography) (.pdf)
- Meeting dates of the Faculty Board (in Dutch)