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ntry Requirements for the Doctoral Program

Applications are accepted from candidates with an MA or equivalent degree from any discipline in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Applicants may be currently enrolled in an MA Program at CEU or elsewhere if they will hold an MA by the time the begin the Ph.D. program. Applicants who are already students at CEU or hold a degree from CEU have a later application deadline as they have already demonstrated a proficiency in English and therefore are not required to submit a TOEFL test score with their application.

In addition to meeting the general CEU admissions requirements, applicants to the Ph.D. program in Gender Studies should submit three confidential letters of recommendation from professors familiar with their post-graduate work, and a three-page research proposal.

Financial Aid for Doctoral Students

Application Deadlines for Academic Year 2010-11:

January 25, 2010: Application deadline for applicants wishing/required to take CEU-administered admissions examinations and/or requesting exemption from the English language proficiency requirement.

April 16, 2010: Application deadline for applicants submitting application packages complete with language scores and other applicable test scores. For current CEU Master’s students and graduates applying to doctoral programs.

Early Applications: CEU will accept early applications from candidates interested in receiving an early admissions decision in order to apply for financial aid from a third party. Such applications may be submitted no later than November 16, 2009 - Monday, and must contain all required documents, including language scores. CEU will be able to advise on admission no later than the end of February 2010. In the cases where applicants may also apply for CEU financial aid, decisions on this will follow the main university admissions calendar.

Tips for Applying to the Ph.D. Program

Checklist for writing a PhD proposal for admission to our PhD program.

  • Do you specify your research topic and establish its importance in your proposal?
  • Do you state your specific research question(s) very clearly somewhere close to the beginning of your proposal?
  • Do you situate your work within the existing theoretical literature on this topic?
  • Do you explain in a meaningful way how your study will be different from existing ones and how it will move the discipline forward? In other words, what kind of theoretical contribution do you expect to make to the existing scholarship on this topic?
  • Do you explain and justify the methodology you plan to use? (Do you try to use multi-disciplinary methods to explore your topic?)
  • Is your project feasible within the given amount of time? Could access to resources and people be a possible problem and how do you plan to deal with these? Will you be able to gain enough training to carry out your project or if you will need additional preparation, how will you gain that?
  • Have you looked at our website and identified one or more professors in the department who you think you could work with, and whose expertise would roughly match your area?
  • Finally, is your proposal well written? Does it have a clear structure; and is it free of excessive jargon, and carefully edited?

For more information you can contact the Ph.D. coordinator, Natalia Versegi at Versegin@ceu.hu.