How to apply for a PhD position at Aarhus BSS Graduate School?
Before you apply read the application guide carefully.
When can you expect the assessment of your application?
You can expect the assessment of your application approximately three months after application deadline. You can read more about the assessment procedure at our website.
The below questions and answers are grouped under short headlines to give a better overview of the FAQ.
What scheme you can apply to, depends on how far you are in your education at the expected PhD study start:
Read more about the PhD degree schemes at our website.
Yes, but only if the project descriptions are not the same.
For technical reasons please submit the applications with different email addresses.
Please be aware that excellent communication skills in English are considered essential, and you must be able to read, write, and speak academic English fluently. Your proficiency level of English should be comparable to a minimum of TOEFL 83 or IELTS 6,5, corresponding to Danish Highschool level B.
No, but you can upload up to three recommendation letters to your application if you want to.
If you add the email address of your referee in the application form under “add referee”, the system will send an email to the referee requesting a letter of recommendation. You will not be able to see the recommendation letter. You can add up to three email addresses.
Please note that we cannot ensure that recommendation letters received after the application deadline will be taken into consideration, so make sure to give your referee enough time to upload the letter before the application deadline.
There are two different ways of financing:
A combination is also possible.
To read more about external financing check out our financing website.
When you apply through the open application round you automatically also apply for a scholarship at Aarhus BSS Graduate School, including tuition fee and salary.
This is also the case if you apply for a special call. In this case, however, the funding often comes from a grant to Aarhus BSS.
If you have external financing, i.e. a scholarship from elsewhere or are backed by a company, you should state this in the application form and upload documentation (including a signed declaration if it is an external scholarship). The documentation should be uploaded in the field “Extra Documents” under “Application and CV”.
Please be aware that if you upload more than one file in the same field in the application form you overwrite the document(s) you have previously uploaded in the same field. Thus, you must combine your files to 1 (one) pdf file.
All fields marked with a red asterisk (*) are required. All other fields are optional.
You should state your grade point average as it is stated in your transcript of records and according to the scale used at your home University, BSc and MSc separately.
The expected start date is stated in the call. For the open call it will always be 1 February or 1 September but can be all year round for special calls.
Credit transfer is an optional field for you to fill out if you think you are eligible to get months transferred which you have studied on top of your admission level. You should state how many months you have on top of the education that your PhD enrolment will be based on.
Examples:
Yes, please see the application guide for the limitations relevant for the scheme you apply for (3, 4 or 5 year scheme).
Please note that in all cases the limitations are stated as number of characters and spaces, NOT words.
Please also note that the Graduate School reserves the right to reject the application if the motivation and/or the project description are too long.
If you upload more than one file in the same field in the application form you overwrite the document(s) you have previously uploaded in the same field. Thus, you must combine your diploma and transcript of records to 1 (one) pdf file, i.e. one file for your Master degree and one file for your Bachelor degree and upload them in their corresponding fields.
Please be aware that the Graduate School reserves the right to reject any applications which do not include the mandatory documentation. In this case that means that we can reject your application if you have not uploaded both diploma and transcript of records for both your master’s and bachelor’s degree. Please see the application guide for more info.
If you have other important documentation, you can upload it in the field “Extra Documents” under “Application and CV”.
Please be aware that if you upload more than one file in the same field in the application form you overwrite the document(s) you have previously uploaded in the same field. Thus, you must combine your files to 1 (one) pdf file.