Doctorates at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo Faculty)

Your contact at the Dean’s Office of the WiSo Faculty concerning applications for admission to doctoral studies and requests to take the doctoral examination is Ms Mundorf (tel. +49 221 470-5607; fax +49 221 470-5179; e-mail: dekanat@wiso.uni-koeln.de). 

The application for admission to doctoral studies should be filed promptly, as soon as you have received the consent of your academic supervisor. The substantive admission requirements are detailed in Section 4 of the Doctoral Regulations. Along with your application, you must submit your supervisor’s declaration of agreement. Without admission to doctoral studies, you cannot enrol as a doctoral student, nor can you acquire certificates for doctoral achievements pursuant to Section 5 of the Doctoral Regulations.

Admission, in particular, of international graduates or the holders of degrees other than those offered by the WiSo Faculty is subject to the decision of the Doctoral Committee. In planning your schedule, please note that the Committee as a rule convenes only once per semester.

Upon completion of your dissertation, you must personally hand in your doctoral examination request at the Dean’s Office using the prescribed form sheet. Here again, Ms Mundorf is the responsible contact.

The oral examination can be conducted in the form of a colloquium or a disputation. The colloquium comprises three different examination subjects from the fields of Business Administration, Economics, and the Social Sciences; at least two of these fields need to be represented. 

The oral examination can be conducted in the form of a colloquium or a disputation. The colloquium comprises three different examination subjects from the fields of Business Administration, Economics, and the Social Sciences; at least two of these fields need to be represented. 

After passing the examination, doctorands are awarded their degree on the occasion of a public ceremony, whereupon they vow to the Dean that they will prove themselves worthy of the doctorate at all times. Parents, friends and colleagues are welcome guests at doctoral ceremonies.

Doctoral Regulations of the WiSo Faculty

Doctoral Regulations 2008
Doctoral Regulations 2005


Doctoral Studies

Unterlagen zur Einreichung der Dissertation

Course Catalogue

Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS)

 

Disputation Schedule

Disputations are open to Faculty members; listeners, however, enjoy no participatory rights. 

 Schedule for the Doctorate Announcements

Summer Semester 2013

  • Submission of first and second papers by no later than 24 May 2013
  • Oral examinations till bis 05 July 2013
  • Public conferral of doctorate on 19 July 2013

Winter Semester 2013/2014: First date

  • Submission of first and second papers by no later than 25 October 2013
  • Oral examinations till bis 6 December 2013
  • Public conferral of doctorate on 13 December 2013

Winter Semester 2013/2014: Second date

  • Submission of first and second papers by no later than 20 December 2013
  • Oral examinations till 31 January 2014
  • Public conferral of doctorate on am 07 February 2014


German-French Doctorand Programme

In April 1999, a joint doctorand programme was launched between the Groupe HEC (Hautes Études Commerciales) and our Faculty. 

Eligibility requirements:

1. Acceptance as a doctorand by the WiSo Faculty

2. Sufficient command of the French language

3. Suitable dissertation theme; ideally, one involving a German-French comparison, but basically any other topic for which supervision can be organized at HEC

As a rule, the programme calls for joint doctoral studies, i.e. doctorands are assigned an additional French supervisor at HEC, alongside their Cologne supervisor, and attend doctoral courses there – mainly in the period from September till Christmas – under the “Programme d’ Études Individuelles du Doctorat de l’École HEC”. During this time, they can obtain the certificates of attendance required by Section 5 of the WiSo Faculty Doctoral Regulations. Apart from joint supervision and studies, the doctoral procedure conforms to the provisions of the aforesaid Cologne Regulations. The official doctoral degree certificate confirms the holder’s participation in the German-French programme.

By way of exception, the programme also provides for a joint doctoral procedure (“Co-tutelle de thèse”) in addition to joint supervision and studies. Subsequently, the doctorate can be titled in either the German or the French form.

Kindly send any enquiries and letters of application to the following address: 



Cologne Graduate School in Managment, Economics and Social Sciences
Richard-Strauss-Str. 2
50931 Köln
Tel.: +49-(0)221-470 6070
Email:  weiler(at)wiso.uni-koeln.de

Doctoral Theses

You can download doctoral theses completed in previous years here:


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