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Enrollment in one of the PhD Programs at Innsbruck Medical University is possible only after you have found a supervisor who can offer a position as a doctoral student in her or his lab. Before submitting your application for admission, please contact the coordinator of the PhD program you are interested in. 

When applying from abroad, the office of admissions will require an exact description of the previous course of study, its duration, as well as information about the faculty, university and country where the academic degree was obtained. Please note that a completed work of independent research (master’s thesis) or comparable experimental scientific experience is recommended. The Vice Rector for Teaching and Study Matters will assess the fulfillment of these requirements.

• Successful completion of a first degree in human medicine or dentistry
• Successful completion of a master’s program in natural sciences
• Successful completion of an equivalent course of study at a recognized educational institution in Austria or abroad, which provides the conditions for participating in the PhD programs at Innsbruck Medical University. 

All documents and transcripts issued by the foreign university must be translated if they are not in German or English. Please consider our guidelines regarding the authentication and translation of documents. Deadlines:

• Citizen from Austria and EU- citizen must submit their complete documents until 16.04 in the summer term and 16.11 in the winter term.
• Non- EU and EWR citizen have to submit their complete documents until 05.02 in the summer term and 05.09 in the winter term. 

Authentication and translation of documents

• Apostille: Documents / certificates issued in one of the member states of the Hague Authentication Convention must only be authenticated by apostille applied by the competent authority in that Country.
• No authentication for countries with bilateral agreements
• Double authentication (diplomatic authentication): In the case of all other countries, the authentication of documents must be performed in a strictly sequential order. The Austrian representative authority in the country where the original documents have been issued must always be the final authentication authority.

TRANSLATIONS  Documents issued in a language other than German or English require to be translated by a court certified translator. Please note that all authentication clauses must be translated and the translator’s signature must be authenticated by the competent authority (e.g. Foreign Ministry) (this does not apply to translations produced by a sworn translator in Austria). The translations must be attached inseparably to the authenticated documents.

• form Application for Admission to the PhD/ Doctor of Philosophy  
• form Study-Agreement/Registration  
• Proof of the award of an equal academic degree (original and copy)

• Study-Agreement/Registration
• Application for Admission
• Application for Change
• 1.^st, 2.^nd and 3.^rd Thesis Committee Meeting
• Final Thesis Committee Meeting
• Application to exclude PhD Thesis
• Form: recognizing foreign academic credits (before WS 2015/16)
• Form: recognizing foreign academic credits (after WS 2015/16)
• Form: recognizing foreign academic credits (after WS 2018/19)
• Guideline for PhD Students at the MUI (2018)

• Credit Calculator (before WS 2015/16)
• Credit Calculator (after WS 2015/16)
• Credit Calculator (after WS 2018/19)
• Submission - PhD thesis
• Proposal for Defensio
• Notification
• Bibliography in PhD Theses
  
  
• Infoblatt: Refundierung Reisekosten PhD-PrüferInnen
• Travel expenses - PhD Thesis Defensio  


• Richtlinie Anrechnung ECTS
• Urheberrechtliche Probleme

• Richtlinien zur Masterarbeit/Diplomarbeit/Dissertation

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• ab WS 2019/20 PhD Curriculum (Studienplan) German version
  
• ab WS 2019/20 PhD Curriculum (Studienplan) English version
  
• PhD Curriculum (Studienplan) before WS 2018/19
• Directive of the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Study Matters – Innsbruck PhD School for Biomedical Sciences
• Richtlinie des Vizerektors für Lehre und Studienangelegenheiten – Innsbruck PhD School for Biomedical Sciences
  

• Festlegung zur Überstellung von Studierenden in den ab 01.10.2018 gültigen Studienplan des Doktoratsstudiums PhD/Doktor of Philosophy und des Doktoratsstudiums der klinisch-medizinischen Wissenschaft
• Regulation regarding the transition of students to the new Doctorate Diploma Programme in Medical Science (Doctor of Philosophy/PhD) curriculum (entering into force on Oct 1, 2018) and the Doctorate Diploma Programme in Clinical Medical Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy/PhD).
  
  Students who were admitted to the Doctorate Diploma Programme in Medical Science (Doctor of Philosophy/PhD) or the Doctorate Diploma Programme in Clinical Medical Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy/PhD) before June 6, 2018, may file a request with the governing body responsible for study matters to be transferred to the new curriculum, entering into force on Oct 1, 2018. The application must be received by no later than Nov 30, 2018 at the Department of Teaching and Study Matters.

• Formular
• Application for curriculum transfer