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Doctoral Program in Engineering and Natural Sciences

 

Application process

To apply for admission to the Doctoral Program in Engineering and Natural Sciences the applicant should first discuss with a professor at TUT who represents applicant's area of research. When contacting a professor, please include your CV, and some information about your master's degree and planned research. In order to apply for admission to Doctoral Program the applicant needs to have a research plan approved by one of our professors who can also act his/her supervisor during postgraduate studies.

There are no specific application period for doctoral studies. Applications are processed by Faculty in its regular meetings every month apart from July. The applications with required appendices must be submitted to the Faculty Office by post or personally to the following addresses. Please note that applications submitted by email are not accepted.

Tampere University of Technology
Faculty of Natural Sciences
P.O.Box 692, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland

Tampere University of Technology
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Korkeakoulunkatu 3, FI-33720 Tampere, Finland

 

To apply for admission to the Doctoral Program please submit the application form and following appendices:

  • application form signed by the applicant and the supervisor

         Form for applicants graduated from TUT

         Form for applicants who have graduated from another university

  • research plan, 2-3 pages
  • study plan for postgraduate studies
  • statement by the supervisor
  • statement of the director of the department who represents applicant’s area of research
  • copy of your MSc/BSc degree certificates including transcripts of all university records and its/their English translations
  • preliminary financial plan
  • certificate of proficiency in the English language for students whose first language is not Finnish or English

   
Non-finnish applicants should include

  • copy of international passport
  • curriculum vitae


All copies and translations must be officially certified with the exception of documents issued by TUT.

Please note that there is no funding connected with being accepted to the Doctoral Program.

 

Language requirements

All the applicants whose native language is not English or Finnish must take an official language test. One of the following language tests is required: IELTS, TOEFL, PTE Academic, Cambridge Language Certificate (Proficiency CPE or Advanced CAE). TUT has basically the same language requirements for the master's and doctoral programmes, so please visit the Language Requirements page for more information.

The score reports can be sent to TUT from the testing centre. The TOEFL code of Tampere University of Technology is 0599. TUT has no institutional code for other language tests.

Applicants are required to attach the official language test report to their application, with the exception of the IELTS language test in which case a copy of the results is accepted.