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You can find valuable information regarding doctoral programs and various career opportunities on advising websites such as
Answers to questions that you may have before, during, at the end or even after your doctorate, regardless of location and subject:
- Prerequisites
- Financial support
- Process
- Career opportunities and paths
- and more
At JGU, doctorates are awarded in a variety of disciplines, such as: Protestant and Catholic theology, economics and law, medicine and dentistry, humanities and social sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, sports science, art theory or pedagogy, and music theory or pedagogy.
No tuition fees are charged for doctoral studies at JGU. When enrolling as a doctoral candidate, only the regular semester fee is payable. At the end of the doctorate, a one-time doctoral fee is due. However, living costs and other doctoral-related expenses must of course be covered.
The respective faculties are responsible for acceptance of doctoral candidates. In addition to your supervisor, the Dean’s Office or Rectorate of your respective faculty can also advise you on all formal questions relating to acceptance as a doctoral candidate.
Exmatriculation has no effect on the doctoral procedure, as your registration remains valid.
If you have been de-registered, you can re-register as a doctoral candidate at any time. To do so, you must submit a new application by the deadline.
Information on recognition of international certificates
- Faculty 04: University Medical Center and TransMed
- Faculty 08
- Faculty 09
- Faculty 10: Information, Contact Examination Office
The conclusion of a supervision agreement is mandatory for all newly accepted doctoral candidates within a reasonable period after acceptance.
The purpose of the supervision agreement is to encourage joint consideration between doctoral candidates and supervisors of the organization of the student-teacher relationship and to document the results. This increases the commitment to and transparency of the supervision process for both parties.
It is advisable to review the agreement together at regular intervals and adjust it if necessary.
Templates:
- Muster-Betreuungsvereinbarung des GKK: eine Arbeitshilfe fรผr Betreuende und Promovierende, die im gemeinsamen Gesprรคch flexibel an die konkreten Rahmenbedingungen des jeweiligen Promotionsprojekts angepasst werden kann
- FB 09 (Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Geography and Geosciences)
- FB 10 (Biology)
Rules and regulations, points of contact, information, materials and trainings at JGU:
Many tasks and services at JGU are digital. Therefore, you need to follow a few steps to be able to work at your new university.
JGU-internal e-mail forwarding
Are you employed at JGU during your PhD and therefore have another account as an employee in addition to your PhD account? If so, we recommend setting up automatic forwarding so that you don’t miss anything.
Instructions for e-mail forwarding:
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Are you missing information? Please let us know (natlife@uni-mainz.de).
As part of a traditional doctorate, you work individually under one supervisor.
Open positions and vacancies can be found on the pages of the respective institutes.
In addition, JGU offers numerous opportunities for the so-called structured doctorate (graduate program). As part of a graduate program, you work in a pre-defined program, which usually offers more additional services and often more intensive supervision compared to an individual doctorate.
To support researchers in early career phases (ECRs), professors from a research focus area can jointly establish Research Training Groups (German abbreviation ‘GRK’) at their university. The focus of a RTG is on the qualification of doctoral candidates through a thematically focused research program as well as structured extracurricular training. In addition to close cooperation, the low-threshold interdisciplinary exchange with other doctoral candidates is a major advantage of a doctorate in a RTG. The German Research Foundation funds Research Training Groups for a period of nine years, meaning that an entire doctoral project can usually be funded by one RTG.
Integrated Research Training Groups (iRTGs) are modules of Collaborative Research Centers (CRCs). CRCs with iRTGs are extremely attractive for scientists in the early stages of their careers, as they promote structured (non-specialist) further training in addition to the extremely interdisciplinary, close cooperation within the CRC research groups.
If we have overlooked a project, please let us know and we will be happy to add it to our list (natlife@uni-mainz.de).
