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Enrolment as a doctoral student

While you are undertaking your doctorate in Halle, you can enrol as a doctoral student. Enrolment is generally voluntary and is only compulsory in exceptional cases (e.g. the PhD board requires you to attend/complete certain seminars). Enrolment for doctoral students is not restricted by any deadlines and can be done at any time (including retroactively for the current semester).

Enrolment gives you regular student status and allows you to take advantage of benefits such as the Deutschlandsemesterticket (Germany-wide ticket for public transport, except for long-distance trains), use of the library, university WiFi, student canteen prices, etc. enrolment is therefore mostly worth it.

Degree-seeking doctoral candidates

The MLU Enrolment Office has compiled an overview for enroling as a doctoral student. It summarizes all the necessary information for you.

Visiting doctoral candidates

As a visiting doctoral candidate, you are also eligible to enrol. The following documents can be sent by email to enrolment@remove-this.verwaltung.uni-halle.de or by post to the address below, or handed in at the Enrolment Office during office hours.
Alternatively, you can use the mailbox in the Löwengebäude to submit the documents to the Enrolment Office. Questions can also be answered by email, mail, or phone:

a completed registration form "Registration for PhD study"
certificate of enrolment from your home institution (Original form. Electronically issued certificates of enrolment must be stamped and signed. If necessary, certified translations in German or English must be provided.)
confirmation of supervision from MLU
proof of membership in a German statutory health insurance (only for doctoral candidates younger than 30)
a bank statement (or record) indicating that you have transferred the semester fee
a passport size, non-biometric photo for your student ID (for your Uni-Service-Card)

Visiting doctoral candidates with an Erasmus+ fellowship

Doctoral candidates who participate in the Erasmus+ programme and do research at MLU only for a temporary period are in need of presenting a nomination of the home institution. You will obtain further information during the nomination process.