Exceptions

Exceptions:

The doctoral committee will decide on exceptions to the above-mentioned pre-requisites in the following cases:

1. Applicants from a different discipline:

If your degree course is related to a subject not named above, the doctoral committee may accept you as a doctoral student if this is in the scientific interests of the Graduate Centre for Engineering Sciences and if you have credentials testifying to your knowledge in the requisite subject relating to the proposed topic of your dissertation. The doctoral committee will determine the kind of credentials relating to the requisite knowledge and which must be produced within a certain timeframe. The credentials may, for example, take the form of successful participation in appropriate classes or of passing individual examinations.

2. Applicants with final degree results below the required grade

If your final degree results are below “good” (i.e., 73 % or higher in the German system), the doctoral committee may nevertheless accept you as a doctoral candidate if this is in the scientific interests of the Graduate Centre for Engineering Sciences and if you have taken an aptitude examination before an examination committee appointed by the doctoral committee proving that you are especially qualified to undertake scientific research.

Please note that you have no right to demand an aptitude examination in the two cases of exception named here.

3. University degrees taken outside Germany

If you took your degree at a university outside Germany, the doctoral committee may recognise your degree as equivalent if it is listed as such in the equivalence agreement approved by the Standing Conference of the State Ministers of Education and the Arts in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Conference of Presidents and Rectors of Universities and Other Higher Education Institutions. If there is any doubt about equivalence, the Central Advisory Office on Foreign Education Systems must be consulted.

If you do not have German citizenship and you did not take your degree at a university in the Federal Republic of Germany, you must present confirmation from your supervisor attesting your adequate proficiency in the German or English language.