Overview

Graduates of the Doctoral Studies of Social and Economic Sciences from University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna are awarded the academic degree of "Doctor of Social and Economic Sciences" or "Doctorx of Social and Economic Sciences", in Latin "Doctor rerum socialium oeconomicarumque", abbreviated to "Dr.rer.soc.oec", "Dr.inrer.soc.oec" or "Dr.xrer.soc.oec".

Doctoral project

After admission to the doctoral programme, the student must register the doctoral project with the Dean of Studies within one year. The doctoral project must be presented to the university before registration (e.g. in seminars at the institute/department or on the website). The registration of the doctoral project includes the following points:

a supervisor with a major authorisation to teach in a social science or economics subject,
a synopsis approved by the supervisor (must contain the working title and a description of the content of the dissertation as well as a time, work and resource plan),
a plan on the form and scope of the dissertation, drawn up by the student together with the supervisor,
an Advisory Team consisting of at least two people,
optionally one or two co-supervisors,
proposal for courses (must be applied for in consultation with the supervisor).

Programme Structure

Curriculum structure:

The doctoral programme of Social and Economic Sciences comprises at least 180 ECTS, of which 162 ECTS points are for the dissertation and at least 18 ECTS points are doctoral courses (including the compulsory 4 ECTS course "Principles and challenges of research in socio-economics, natural resources and life sciences").
The topic of the dissertation shall be selected from a social science or economics subject which is represented at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna by a university lecturer with a major authorisation to teach.

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Prerequisite for admission to the doctoral programme in Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, is:

the completion of an engineering diploma or Master's degree programme at BOKU, or an individual diploma or Master's degree programme with major subject at BOKU or
the completion of a study programme at e recognised domestic or foreign post-secondary educational institution that is equivalent to the diploma or Master's degree programmes mentioned in the bullet point above or
the completion of a domestic degree programme at a "Fachhochschule" [University of Applied Sciences] determined by ordinance to be subject-relevant or
the completion of a social and economic science diploma or Master's degree programme

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Doctoral Studies of Social and Economic Sciences

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)

Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Wien, Austria

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