The Graduate School aims to improve and bundle the doctoral education. The entire doctoral process is institutionally supported. The Graduate School provides a frame in which students of the School of Business, Economics and Social Science are supported and integrated into a research environment. The Graduate School is responsible for the entire mentoring and monitoring process that is connected to a doctorate.

Intention of the Graduate School

  1. To structure the doctoral education,
  2. To establish doctoral education programs and studies,
  3. To ensure the quality of the education,
  4. To promote the internationalisation of the doctoral education,
  5. To establish links between the academic teaching and the research,
  6. To strengthen the cooperations between the departments of the faculty,
  7. To increase the visibility of the national and international research of the faculty,
  8. To promote equality and the reconciliation of a scientific career and family.

Function of the Graduate School

  1. To provide a compilation of offered courses for doctoral students of the faculty,
  2. To develop and offer doctoral related events,
  3. To ensure the mentoring and monitoring of doctoral students,
  4. To develop study regulations,
  5. To develop and ensure standards for the selection of doctoral students,
  6. To support research projects and collaboration of the doctoral students,
  7. To take part in the doctoral process,
  8. To maintain a data base for quality assurance of the dissertation process,
  9. To evaluate, analyse and develop  the doctoral programs
  10. To do public relations for the Graduate School.