Doctoral Office

Doctoral Office of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Welcome to the service area of the Doctoral Office of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences!

After successfully completing your studies, are you now looking to pursue a doctorate to demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills?

Then the following pages will provide you with information on the necessary steps to obtain a doctorate at our faculty.

University of Wuppertal
School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Doctoral Office

Gaußstraße 20
42119 Wuppertal

Room: F.10.04
Phone: +49 (0)202 439 3986
E-mail: promotionenfk4(at)uni-wuppertal.de

New procedure for doctoral programmes (not only for first-time enrolments in the 2026 summer semester)!

From 1 December 2025, enrolment will be mandatory for all doctoral students in Faculty 4. From this date onwards, enrolment will only be possible via the HISinOne-DOC doctoral management system integrated into StudiLöwe. The link will take you to the ZGS page where the procedure is explained. This page will be continuously updated as further phases of the doctoral programme are integrated. At this point in time, only enrolment is regulated in HISinOne-Doc.

Please be advised that the language in HISinOne-Doc is German.

Link to the homepage of the ZGS (Available also only in German)

In addition, a written supervisory agreement from a university lecturer at the University of Wuppertal is needed for commencement of the doctoral programme. Your supervisor must confirm the supervision with his or her signature on this form. Without the supervisory agreement, you cannot submit the application for admission.

If you complete your doctorate, including your examination, in the winter semester 25/26, you do not need to re-enrol. All others must go through the process as first-time enrolers.

Info: You will be enrolled for the summer semester 2026, which means that you will only have to pay the semester fee from the summer semester 2026 onwards.

Re-registration (up to 8th semester)
Like all students at the university of Wuppertal, doctoral students also pay the regular semester fee. You can find further information on this here.

Re-registration (9th-12th semester)
According to the current enrolment regulations of the University of Wuppertal, doctoral students can be enrolled until the end of the semester in which they receive their doctoral certificate, but for a maximum of eight semesters.

An extension beyond the eighth semester is possible for up to four additional semesters. For this purpose, written proof of the supervisor's requirement for further enrolment must be submitted to the Student Administration Office, in case of foreign students to the International Student Administration Office. This proof must be handed in by the end of the re-registration period at the latest.

Here you can find the form of the Centre for Graduate Studies for re-registration after the eighth semester.

Re-registration (from the 13th semester)
Enrolment as a doctoral student beyond the twelfth semester requires the submission of a written statement from the responsible doctoral committee for each re-registration. This must also be submitted to the Student Administration Office or International Student Administration Office by the end of the corresponding re-registration period at the latest.

Here you can find the form of the Centre for Graduate Studies for re-registration after the twelfth semester.

At the end of the doctoral programme, you apply to the doctoral committee to open a doctoral examination process. For this purpose, please schedule an appointment with our Doctoral Office.

Here you can find an overview of the documents to be submitted:

Bachelor's and Master's certificate
Application for the opening of my doctoral procedure
CV
Bound copies of the dissertation: one copy for the examination office, one copy for each examiner, and one copy for each reviewer; therefore, a minimum of five bound copies in total.

You have the option of informing the doctoral committee of the composition of your examination board in consultation with your supervisor. Please contact the committee members you wish to appoint in advance and ask for their agreement in order to avoid misunderstandings. If you are unsure about the composition of your committee, please contact your supervisor.

The doctoral committee decides on the opening of the doctoral procedure and informs both you and the members of the committee accordingly.

Once your doctoral examination process has been successfully opened, the committee work begins. Your dissertation will be reviewed and examined and the committee members will be informed of the reviews. Once the reviews have been accepted, the committee determines the grade of the dissertation and you have the opportunity to make an appointment with them for the oral examination. After the oral examination, the examination committee decides whether the thesis has been passed and determines the overall grade.

You must then publish your dissertation in the university's library. You can find more information on this here.

Once your dissertation has been published, you will receive your doctoral certificate.

Upon receiving your doctoral certificate, you then have the right to use the title of Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) or Doctor of Educational Sciences (Dr. paed.).

Congratulations!