The PhD in Earth Sciences at University of Pécs is a 4 years long program for international students, taught in English.
📖Introduction
The University of Pécs is a public university in Pécs, Hungary. It was founded in 1367 and is one of the oldest universities in Hungary. The university has over 25,000 students and 3,000 staff members. It offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in the fields of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and engineering.
The Doctoral School of Earth Sciences offers a four-year training and research program in various fields of geography, geology and meteorology.
📖Program Curriculum
There are several fields of teaching and research focusing on certain disciplines. The selection of research topics, training plans as well as fundamental and applied research is related to the following thematic groups and their leaders:
Cultural geography: Dr. András Trócsányi Geology: Professor Tamás Budai Geography of tourism: Dr. András Trócsányi Geomorphology: Professor Ferenc Schweitzer Historical and political geography: Professor Zoltán Dövényi Meteorology and climate change: Professor István Geresdi Physical geography, landscape evaluation: Dr. Dénes Lóczy Population and settlement geography: Professor Zoltán Dövényi Regional geography: Professor István Szilágyi Regional and settlement development: Professor István Szilágyi In the regular courses about six Hungarian and a limited number of foreign citizens can be accepted. Since the accreditation of the Doctoral School more than 50 full-time students and more than 300 part-time (correspondent) students have participated in the training. In the past fifteen years more than 100 students have received PhD degrees.
The University of Pécs is a public university in Pécs, Hungary. It was founded in 1367 and is one of the oldest universities in Hungary. The University of Pécs has over 25,000 students and 4,000 staff members. It offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in the fields of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and engineering.
🏠 Accommodation
You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.
You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.
How to book:
Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it
Please choose the programs here , "You are advised to select 2-3 programs to increase your chances of getting accepted.
Required Documents:
Medical Examination Form
Curriculum Vitae
English Language Certificate
Personal Statement
Your Highest Academic Transcript (in English)
Your Graduation Certificate (in English)
Your Passport Copy
Preparing documents:
You can start your application now and send the application documents during your application. Some documents you can send later if you don’t have them right away. Some more info about preparing application documents is here
Applying Online is simple in just a few steps. More information is available here.
The first steps are to choose the programs, pay the application fee and upload the application documents.
Once submitted to Global Admissions, we will review your application within 2-3 days and proceed to the university or ask you for further clarification
After it has been processed to the university you will receive your unique application ID from each university.
The university may contact you directly for further questions.
We will then follow up each week with the university for updates. As soon as there is any update we will let you know. If you have made other plans, decide to withdraw / change address at any time please let us know.
After you have been accepted you will receive your admissions letter electronically and asked to pay the non-refundable deposit to the university.
Once you have paid the deposit the university will issue you the admissions letter and visa form to your home country.