The recruitment rules are approved by the University’s Senate and include regulations of whole the admission process as well as evaluation criteria used to assess the candidates. The full text of recruitment rules for academic year 2025/2026 is available here.

Important information:

• Regulations of whole the admission process as well as evaluation criteria used to assess the candidates are included in the recruitment rules.
• The admission process, including interviews for the Doctoral School, is carried out by recruitment committees for each discipline (field) appointed by the Dean of Doctoral School.
• The admission to the Doctoral School is an open competition in each discipline, based on a point system.
• The following elements are evaluated by the recruitment committee:
  • Command of English language, B2 level is required (language certificates, diploma, transcript of records, etc.) - weight 1.
  • Description of the initial concept of the doctoral dissertation - weight 1.
  • Scientific activity, research and development activity or other activity (e.g., publications, conferences, projects, patents, internships) - weight 4.
  • Interview - weight 4.
• You can get a maximum of 100 points.
• The ranking list is determined separately for each educational discipline on the basis of the recruitment scores obtained by individual candidates.
• Candidates are qualified depending on their position on the ranking list, up to the number of places awarded for a given discipline, but it is also required to obtain a minimum recruitment score, i.e., at least 50 points out of 100 possible.

Detailed information on the candidate evaluation criteria and recruitment rules for each discipline:

1. Architecture and urban planning
2. Automation, electronic, electrical engineering and space technologies
3. Information and communication technology
4. Biomedical engineering
5. Chemical engineering
6. Civil engineering, geodesy and transport
7. Materials engineering
8. Mechanical engineering
9. Environmental engineering, mining and energy
10. Mathematics
11. Chemical sciences
12. Physical sciences
13. Management and quality studies