Registration in Docfile includes the creation of a user account and the completion of the digital assistant for the application "Admission as a doctoral candidate*in" with the submission of the entries on the last slide.

You will find the digital assistant on the second tile after logging in on the start page at " Please register here".

You can find an overview of the doctoral opportunities at the University of Cologne on the AMC homepage.

In this case, please contact the doctoral office responsible for you.

Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences:

Martina Mundorf

Phone. +49 (0) 221 470 - 5607

Email: dekanat(at)wiso.uni-koeln.de

Faculty of Medicine:

Doctoral candidate registration at the Faculty of Medicine

Phone. +49 (0) 221 478 - 5354

Fax. +49 (0) 221 478 – 6276

Email: medfak-promotion(at)uni-koeln.de

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences:

Karin Gotzmann

Phone. +49 (0) 221 470 – 4225

Fax. +49 (0) 221 470 – 6927

Email:  mnf-promotionen(at)uni-koeln.de

Room 5007a building 100 (main building)

Alexandra Grömling

Phone. +49 (0) 221 470 - 6555

Fax. +49 (0) 221 470 - 6927

Email:  mnf-promotionen(at)uni-koeln.de

Room 5007a building 100 (main building)

Faculty of Human Sciences:

Karin Schüller

Phone. +49 (0) 221 470 - 4619

Email: promotionen-hf(at)uni-koeln.de

Gronewaldstr. 2

Room 0.107 (old: Room 21)

50931 Cologne

Faculty of Law:

N. N.

doctoral thesis processing

Phone. +49 (0) 221 470 – 6857

Fax. +49 (0) 221 470 – 5106

Email: jura-promotion(at)uni-koeln.de

Faculty of Philosophy:

a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne

Phone. +49 (0) 221 470 - 1259

Fax. +49 (0) 221 470 – 1964

Email: promotionsbuero-phil-fak(at)uni-koeln.de

Opening hours: Monday - Friday 10.00 a.m. - 04.00 p.m.

If you have cancelled your doctoral project, please contact your doctoral office in the faculty. Please note that if you exmatriculate as a doctoral candidate, no data will be transferred to the doctoral office. Please also notify the doctoral office of your cancellation.

No. In order to do a doctorate at the University of Cologne, you must be accepted as a doctoral candidate by a faculty. Acceptance as a doctoral candidate is regulated in the doctoral regulations of the respective faculties. Only with the confirmation of acceptance it is ensured that you meet the requirements for a doctorate at the University of Cologne.

You will soon be able to submit your application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate electronically via Docfile.

No. After your faculty has officially accepted you as a doctoral candidate, you can receive a certificate of enrolment for your doctoral studies. For the enrolment for the doctoral studies programme, please contact the student office.