All Information on Doctoral Studies as well as relevant Information can be found on the central page of the Freie Universität. For a more broad view of Doctoral Programs in Berlin, please click here.

More information on a step-by-step towards the doctorate can be found in the Dahlem Reseach School. Here is a brief summary:

Please note that German is not mandatory for writing a Dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin

First steps:

• Choosing between an Individual Doctorate and a Structurate Doctorate (Dahlem Research School, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies);
• Choose a topic and a supervisor (Linguistics, Literature, Didactics);
• Find funding opportunities (including, but not limited to, scholarships or scientific positions)

During your doctorate:

• Admission and Enrollment: this includes the confirmation of supervision and the submission of different documents for the application, which can be found in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities (in German)
• Supervision and Guidance: it is recommended to make an agreement with the supervision regarding subject, time plan, members of the team and the respective obligations
• Completing your degree: a document in the form of a monograph or a collection of articles have to be submitted to the department's graduation office, which will be reviewed by a comitee and, if approved, an appointment for the oral examination can be made.

After your doctorate

• Dissertations already completed in our Institut can be found in our Archiv
• The career options include Public Service, Private Sector and Enterpreneurship
• Career Day 2023

Archive

Below are the published dissertations of our Institute!