48 monthsProgramme duration
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Engineering - General
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
At DTU you can get a research education equal to the world’s very best within the natural and the technical sciences including several societally relevant engineering disciplines such as digitalization, sustainable energy technologies, and life science.
As a PhD student you will carry out independent scientific research including a written dissertation and a public defense of your PhD work.
Learning to conduct research The PhD study is a learning process where you as a PhD student learn to conduct research by working closely with your academic supervisor. The supervisor and PhD student work together as a team in order to achieve the best results.
The PhD programme consists of:
- an independent scientific project
- course work corresponding to 30 ECTS
- teaching and dissemination activities corresponding to approximately 3 months
- an external research stay
- a PhD thesis
- a public defence
Programme overview
Main Subject
Engineering - General
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
At DTU you can get a research education equal to the world’s very best within the natural and the technical sciences including several societally relevant engineering disciplines such as digitalization, sustainable energy technologies, and life science.
As a PhD student you will carry out independent scientific research including a written dissertation and a public defense of your PhD work.
Learning to conduct research The PhD study is a learning process where you as a PhD student learn to conduct research by working closely with your academic supervisor. The supervisor and PhD student work together as a team in order to achieve the best results.
The PhD programme consists of:
- an independent scientific project
- course work corresponding to 30 ECTS
- teaching and dissemination activities corresponding to approximately 3 months
- an external research stay
- a PhD thesis
- a public defence
Admission Requirements
To be admitted as a PhD student, an applicant must have satisfactory results from one of the following exams:
- A Danish Master’s degree in engineering. (Corresponding to an MSc in Engineering)
- A Master’s degree (based on two years of master’s studies equivalent to 120 ECTS points) from a Danish, long-cycle higher educational programme which, in the estimation of the relevant PhD school, gives the applicant the qualifications necessary to complete the course of study in question. An individual evaluation will always be made in relation to the planned PhD study programme.
- A degree from abroad which, in the estimation of the head of the PhD school, is equivalent to one of the degrees/examinations mentioned above in 1) and 2). Admission may also depend upon submission to tests which are further determined by the head of the PhD school.
- Or, if the head of the PhD school concludes that the applicant in some other way has acquired the necessary academic qualifications, which may require documentation by means of special tests.
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