Program Overview

Program Overview

The Doctoral School offers a program in Civil Engineering, Geodesy, and Transport, which is a full-time, third-cycle studies program. The program is conducted in English and has an admission limit of 16 students.

Program Details

• Code: SD1-ILTA-DITA-NSDW8
• Organizational unit: Doctoral School
• Area/discipline: Civil Engineering, Geodesy, and Transport
• Form of studies: Full-time
• Level of education: Third cycle
• Language(s) of instruction: English
• Admission limit: 16
• Duration: 8 semesters

Required Documents

• Higher education (bachelor and master diplomas)

Program Structure

The doctoral training of a PhD student shall take place according to an individual study program of an interdisciplinary nature, determined by the doctoral student together with the supervisor. Every PhD student must complete the following courses:

• Recent research trends in scientific discipline (30h)
• Research skills (30h)
• Ethical and legal aspects of scientific activity (15h)
• Teaching skills (15h)
• Personal development (15h)
• Seminars (60h, 4x15)
• Academic English (60h, 2x30)
• Elective courses (in total 60h)

Research Areas

The PhD student pursues a dissertation in a topic related to the scientific discipline of civil engineering, geodesy, and transport, including but not limited to the following research areas:

• Advanced methods for testing materials and structures
• Durability and safety of buildings
• Innovative methods of analysis and modern technologies for the construction of engineering structures
• Renewable energy sources in construction
• Analytical, semi-analytical, symbolic, symbolic-numerical, and numerical methods in structural mechanics

Admission Process

The admission process, including interviews for the Doctoral School, is carried out by recruitment committees for each scientific discipline (field). The admission to the Doctoral School is an open competition in each discipline, based on a point system. Candidates are assessed by the recruitment committees on a 0-10 point scale in four evaluation criteria:

• Command of English language, B2 level is required (language certificates, diploma, transcript of records, etc.) - weight 1
• Description of the initial concept of the doctoral dissertation - weight 1
• Scientific activity, research and development activity or other activity (e.g., publications, conferences, projects, patents, internships) - weight 4
• Interview - weight 4

Admission Procedure

The procedure for the basic recruitment (the doctoral scholarship is funded by the university) is as follows:

• The ranking list is determined separately for each scientific discipline on the basis of the recruitment scores obtained by individual candidates
• Candidates are qualified depending on their position on the ranking list, up to the number of places awarded for a given discipline, but it is also required to obtain a minimum recruitment score, i.e., at least 50 points out of 100 possible

Recruitment for Candidates with External Funding

For recruitment of candidates with obtained funding from other sources outside the University (including the Implementation Doctorate program and other projects), admission to the Doctoral School is conditional on:

• Achieving the minimum recruitment score (at least 50 points out of a possible 100)
• Fulfilment of other requirements on which funding is dependent, including obtaining funding and signing all agreements related to the implementation of the project financing the doctoral scholarship