PhDDoctoral School of History
| Study location | Hungary, Budapest |
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| Type | Doctoral, full degree studies |
| Nominal duration | 8 semesters (240 ECTS) |
| Study language | English |
| Awards | PhD |
| Course code | Arts and Humanities |
| Entry qualification | Master diploma (or higher) MA or MSc degree in any sciences The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English. Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. You must take the original entry qualification documents along with you when you finally go to the university. |
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| Territory requirements | Applications are accepted from the following territories (based on citizenship): Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, State of Palestine, Sudan, Syria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen. |
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| Language requirements | English B2 |
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| Other requirements | A motivation letter must be added to your application. |
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Overview
Program description:
The English language archaeological programme has an internationally trained and renowned group of professors, who are fully involved not only in archaeological reasearch of various European countries, but also run a number of research projects in the Near East and thus are welcoming students with a broad spectre of subjects to supervise. The obligatory lectures in the archaeological material of various civilisations are supplemented with training in the use of the most recent documentation and research technologies of the GIS and Non-Invasive Archaeological Laboratory of the Institute. Supported by the unique technical capacities of the laboratory, students can lay a special emphasis in their research subject on the technological field too.
To obtain the PhD degree students are required to collect all the 240 credits of the programme to get the final certificate. Pass a Comprehensive Examination at the end of the 4th semester. Have one B2 language exam certificate as a condition of the comprehensive Examination. Submit dissertation after the Comprehensive Examnination within 3 years. Complete a thesis discussing session with the members of the opponent teachers’ committee. Defend the thesis in public, in front of the committee.
Entry requirements:
MA or MSc degree in all sciences
Entrance exam:
Yes
Type of entrance exam:
oral
Entrance exam location:
PPCU or abroad
Entrance exam description:
Based on the foreign language homepage of the Doctoral School of History students get a full view of the instruction and research done at the Doctoral School. Fee-paying students contact the email address on the Doctoral School homepage, the students of the “Stipendium” contact the Tempus Foundation in order to express their intention to apply and send their documents needed for the application process (MA degree, the necessary language skills, valid travel documents, motivation letter). The staff at the Doctoral School specialized in the field and commissioned for the process contact the candidates and conduct the entrance application procedure on a previously designated day:
- those qualified for the process present themselves to a board of appointed staff from the Doctoral School
- those unable to attend due to some specified reasons may present themselves through skype to the same board
- in-as-much it is possible for the Doctoral School – but in every case of our partners in the Middle East countries (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Egypt, Turkey) the staff members working in the field will have personal interviews with the candidates besides the skype conference
Contact:
Mr. Tamás Hógenburg
head of international office
international.office@btk.ppke.hu
Preparatory year available:
No
Specialisation year available:
No
Minimum number of scholarship holders:
3
Maximum number of scholarship holders:
30
Link:
btk.ppke.hu/en/academics/degree-programmes/graduate/doctoral-school-of-history-archaeology
Programme structure
240 credits, 4 years
Programme structure
240 credits, 4 years
