Submission of the thesis¶
Doctoral Thesis (“Dissertation”)¶
After completing your research and the mandatory qualification program, the doctoral examination process begins with the submission of your doctoral thesis.
A list of the required documents and additional steps can be found on the TUM Graduate School’s Wiki. You must submit certain documents to the examination office at TUM in Munich. This can be done by mail, internal mail, or in person.
Once the examination office reviews your documents, they will forward them to the Dean’s Office. From there, we will begin organizing the next steps in the doctoral process leading to the oral exam.
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You must follow the procedures outlined in the section Reporting and confirmation of the qualification program before submitting your thesis.
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The title page should be formatted according to the TUM layout and have the content from the template:
The date of the submission will be filled out, when you hand it in at the Center for Study and Teaching (CST). The full information (committee and acceptance date) will only be available for the publication of the dissertation after the exam.
Remark on the dates of handing in and the oral exam¶
At the TUM School of Natural Sciences your thesis submission date is not bound by the meeting dates of the School Council. But keep the following in mind:
Qualification program of TUM GS¶
As a Graduate Center of Natural Sciences member, you must provide the report on the qualification program in advance. This can be done in person or you send the signed report by (internal) mail.
The submission process involves DocGS, the TUM-GS platform. Once you’ve submitted your report to us, there will be a short processing time before the section for submitting your thesis becomes active in DocGS.
Members of other (thematic) Graduate Centers need to contact their graduate center to make sure that the qualification program is fully documented in DocGS, and you may hand in the thesis.
Earliest possible exam date¶
The deadline for the decision of the faculty according to §12 S. 2 PromO (Umlaufverfahren) was set to one week by the Dean. The deadline for the announcement of the oral exam according to §14 (2) PromO is one week. This results in the fact that the exam date can not be earlier than three weeks after all written reports from the examiners were received by the Dean’s Office!
This includes the time required to handle the documents given the deadlines but please keep in mind that delays might happen for various other reasons. While we have a fast and efficient team at the Dean’s office at NAT, the examination process significantly depends on input from others, including our faculty and our doctoral candidates.