Doctoral Programmes - Economics - Suggested planning
Predoctoral year:
Doctum Colloquium or Master of Science in Advanced Studies in Economics (distinction)
Doctoral programme year one:
At the end of year one: doctoral proposal + ad-hoc commission (3 to 5 members from the Department of Economics)Form submission of PhD proposal (PDF) and Form PhD proposal: report of commission (PDF)
During the course of 3 years:
- Reading courses
- CES-seminars
- Doctoral courses
- Research seminars
- Presenting at least 2 doctoral seminars
- Actively participating in at least 1 international conference
- International publication
Progress: submitting every year at the end of June the Doctoral booklet (DOC: MS Word)
Last year:
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At least 3 months before the public defence and in any case before the pre-defence:
- 6 adjoined theses, approved by the supervisor. The doctoral student presents a list of six adjoined theses, approved by the supervisor, to the Faculty Board. These theses have to be original, have to be formulated consisely and have to contain statements that allow discussion. Students should also give a short explanation for each proposition. In particular, they have to provide a 5-10 line explanation of each proposition that lists arguments both in favor and against that particular statement.
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Final commission (5 to 7, at least 2 are not from the Department of Economics, at least 1 is not a member of the Association of the KULeuven)
(Form propositions and final commission - PDF) - Form predefense
- Submitting the final text at least 8 weeks before the pre-defence to the commission.
- Public defence: submitting the final version of the dissertation at least one month before the public defence.(Form application for public defense - PDF) Guidelines public defense
More information: seeDoctoral Regulations of the Faculty or mail phd@econ.kuleuven.be
