Doctoral Student Recruitment
Doctoral Student - postgraduate education and employment.
Here on EECS internal pages you may find information about doctoral recruitment specific for the school, including the initiation of recruitment that must be filled in and signed before starting the advertisement for a doctoral student.
When recruiting doctoral students, the EECS doctoral recruitment team offers support. You may get help with competence-based recruitment with support through the entire recruitment process. On KTH's internal pages , you, as a recruiting manager and main supervisor, may find information about competency-based recruitment, a process map, and support documentation for interviews.
Conditions for recruiting a doctoral student
Before you decide to announce a doctoral position, you need to know:
- Chapter 5 of KTH's guidelines on third-cycle studies.
- Chapter 2 of KTH admission regulations, Antagningsordning på KTH.
You will also have to check the third-cycle subject's general syllabus for the specific entry requirements when recruiting a new doctoral student. You may find this information on the Doctoral Education Support pages about doctoral programs.
Industrial doctoral student
You may find information about Recruiting an industrial doctoral student here.
Recruitment of doctoral students employed by KTH
Initiation of recruitment at EECS
Before initiating a PH.D. recruitment you need to spek to to your division head and create a budget for the employment with your finance officer. To initiate the doctoral student recruitment process, the main supervisor must fill in the web form for recruitment of doctoral students shich serves as a formal approval from the Division Head and FA. The name of the main supervisor, type of financing, financial officer responsible for the project, and employment funding will be stated in the form.
The web form will be sent to your HR contact, who will administer it.
Advertising (doctoral student employed by KTH)
At KTH, doctoral student recruitment ads are co-advertised nine times per year. The deadlines for initiating the recruitment can be found below:
| 2025 Deadlines for all approvals and adding text in Varbi | Date of announcement |
|---|---|
| 26 March |
10 April |
| 23 April | 8 May |
| 21 May | 5 June |
| 25 August | 4 September |
| 17 September | 2 October |
| 22 November | 6 November |
| 19 November | 4 December |
After the recruitment
Once the selection and interviews are finalized, the main supervisor must motivate the selected final candidate. To do this, you need to go to the web form for the recruitment of doctoral students where the recruitment was initiated, but instead, choose "Motivation of chosen candidate for employment as the form will be sent to your HR contact, who will administer the documentation and send it to third-cycle education support. Please keep in mind that when a selected candidate has accepted the offer of employment, he or she needs to be admitted as a doctoral student at KTH before finalizing the employment. The main supervisor will start the application for admission by following the instructions that can be found on the pages for third-cycle chosen candidates who are relocating from outside of the EU. They need to apply for a residence permit for doctoral studies; therefore, the main supervisor needs to fill in and sign a certificate of study. You can find a template (in Swedish) for the certificate below. The Swedish Migration Board will not accept a certificate written and signed by HR or the Doctoral Education Support. Intyg, förstagångsansökan till Migrationsverket (docx 65 kB) (only in Swedish). Send the signed certificate to the candidate.
The doctoral recruitment team
E-mail: rekrytering@eecs.kth.se
