Application procedure

1. Contact a professor

Make contact with a professor who could be interested in your candidature and who is willing to supervise your thesis work.

2. Application

Fill in the application form : French (SS13 or AS13)/ German (SS13 or AS13)

3. Payment of the application fee

Please pay the application fee of CHF 50.- to the Banque cantonale de Fribourg.

No application for admission will be handled without proof of payment of the application fee.

4. Expedition of the documents required for the handling of the application for admission

Please send then the documents required for the handling of the application for admission.

5. Handling of the application for admission and decision

When we have received all of the documents required, your application will be handled by:

• the Office for Admissions and Registration who will formally analyse your application and decide whether or not you may be admitted to a doctorate programme;
• then by the faculty concerned which will decide whether the faculty requirements have been fulfilled.

When your application has been returned by the faculty we shall mail you a written decision.

6. Presentation of the original version of your qualifications

In all cases, you must present the original version of the qualifications required for admission, either by:

• post;
• personally presenting the documents during the opening hours of the Office for Admissions and Registration.

7. Final decision of admission

When you have fulfilled all of the conditions for admission and presented the original version of your qualifications you will receive a final written decision of admission.

8. Expedition of the invoice for the semester tuition fee

You will receive an invoice for the payment of the semester tuition fee.

9. Access to university facilities / beginning of studies

Along with your bill you will receive information concerning your e-Account which you must activate.

Once you have paid the semester tuition fee (but at the very earliest one week after payment) you can:

• receive a Campus Card;
• print your attestation of registration at MyData.