Institute of Doctoral Studies

Ovidius University of Constanta (UOC) is an accredited higher education institution, which organizes scientific doctoral studies, called IOSUD-UOC.

Doctoral studies are organized by doctoral fields within the doctoral schools provisionally authorized to operate or accredited. The doctoral fields that are organized within IOSUD-UOC are:

Philology, Theology, Biology, Medicine, Dentistry, History, Mathematics, Sports Science and Physical Education, Management, Business Administration.

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The Council for Doctoral Studies, hereinafter referred to as the CSUD, operates at IOSUD-UOC level as a body for the management and organization of doctoral studies, and is headed by a Director, who is a member by right of the CSUD, and whose function is assimilated to that of the Prorector.

Currently, through delegation of duties, the CSUD Director is Prof. Monica Vlad - CV

CSUD has 17 members and is composed of PhD supervisors from Ovidius University of Constanta and PhD students. The methodology for the election of the CSUD members is approved by the Senate of Ovidius University of Constanta.

Currently the term of office of a CSUD member is 5 years. Doctoral students who are members of the CSUD and finalize their doctoral studies during the CSUD mandate lose their CSUD membership at the date of the public defense of their doctoral thesis.

Administrative activities related to the conduct of doctoral studies at IOSUD-UOC and CSUD actions are carried out by the Secretariat for Doctoral Studies.

In IOSUD-UOC, the Doctoral School is the administrative structure that provides the necessary support for doctoral studies in a specific discipline or disciplinary or interdisciplinary theme. Each Doctoral School is managed by the Doctoral School Council.

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The doctoral studies are carried out on the basis of a doctoral studies contract concluded, with the agreement of the Doctoral School, between the doctoral student, his/her supervisor and Ovidius University of Constanta, which establishes the rights and obligations of the doctoral student, the supervisor and, through the Doctoral School, of Ovidius University of Constanta. Annexed to the contract is the Individual Doctoral Study Plan.

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Currently the duration of doctoral studies is, as a rule, 4 years from the date of enrollment.

The doctoral studies of the doctoral student are planned for each academic year and comprise two components:

a) The training program based on advanced academic studies, carried out within the doctoral school and consisting of didactic-scientific activities (courses, seminars, laboratories and the like) that provide the doctoral student with 12 weeks of training, or 28 weeks for medical fields, and takes place during the first year of the doctoral program.

b) The individual scientific research program is organized in the field of research in which the doctoral supervisor has dedicated himself/herself.

The two components: the Advanced Graduate Studies Program and the Individual Scientific Research Program are compulsory for the completion of doctoral studies.

Completion of the Advanced University Studies-based training program may lead to the award of a number of transferable ECTS credits, determined at doctoral school level by the doctoral school's own regulations.

Doctoral studies end with the public presentation of an original work, called a doctoral thesis. The doctoral thesis must comply with the requirements set out in the doctoral school regulations. On the basis of the doctoral thesis and its public presentation, the decision to award the doctoral degree is taken.

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Doctoral study programmes are organized with: funding from the state budget and on a fee basis or from other legally established sources.

     For doctoral students, on the proposal of the doctoral school councils, the amount of the annual tuition fee for each doctoral field is established for doctoral students studying on a fee-paying basis and the amount of the fee for the defense of the doctoral thesis. These fees are approved by the Board of Administration, validated by the Director of the UOC and made public by the date of the announcement of the doctoral admission competition for the academic year in question