Doctoral and PhD Programs
Students can undertake doctoral programs in technical sciences, social sciences and humanities, and natural sciences. In addition, the Vienna PhD School of Informatics and several specialized doctoral programs are offered.
Doctoral Programs
| Natural Sciences | Dr.rer.nat. | 6 terms | 180 ECTS, 162 thereof for the thesis |
| Social Sciences and Humanities | Dr.rer.soc.oec. | 6 terms | 180 ECTS, 162 thereof for the thesis |
| Technical Sciences | Dr.techn. | 6 terms | 180 ECTS, 162 thereof for the thesis |
Vienna PhD School of Informatics
The Vienna PhD School of Informatics is an international PhD School, funded by the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), the city of Vienna and private sponsors.
PhD students for this full-time program are recruited world-wide, all courses are held in English. The PhD School is located at the Vienna University of Technology and admits Austrian as well as international students annually. Specifically, TU Vienna invites applications for a maximum of 15 PhD scholarships per year.
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Additional Programs
The Faculty of Informatics is currently involved in the following doctoral programs:
- Adaptive Distributed Systems, coordinator: G. Kappel
- Computational Perception, coordinator: M. Gelautz
- Mathematical Logic in Computer Science, coordinator: T. Eiter
- WIT: Women in Technology
These doctoral programs are funded by the Vienna University of Technology.