Doctoral education at ITM

Here you will find support and processes within postgraduate education at the ITM school. If you are a supervisor, programme director or administrator you are at the right place.

Support for doctoral students

Links

Supervising – what’s expected by the PhD and the supervisor

Scholarship announcements

All KTH's doctoral programmes

Doctoral student at KTH (central pages)

Doctoral studies from start to end

Recruitment

ITM’s process for recruiting Doctoral students

Admission

When applying for admission, the following documents (paper) are submitted to the Third Cycle Education Office after they have been approved by respective Director of Doctoral Program.

Application for admission to licentiate / doctor (form)
Copy of funding documentation
Copy of diploma with course documentation

Please note that no documentation should be sent by e-mail. Once the doctoral student has been accepted, confirmation will be received by e-mail.

Once the doctoral student is accepted, the principle supervisor (HHL) creates an e-ISP (electronic individual study plan).

Guide to e-ISP - Individual study plans for doctoral students

Licentiate seminars and dissertation

At KTH, dissertations and licentiate seminars can take place during the periods January 7 – June 15 and August 15 – December 20. All the times listed below must occur within those periods.

Time	Action	Performed by
> 10 weeks	Advance reviewer are appointed (form). Submitted to the postgraduate education office (in original).	Principle supervisor (HHL) suggests and DA decides by delegation from FA.
10–8 weeks	The advance reviewer receives a complete licentiate essay / doctoral thesis which has been carefully checked by the supervisors.	Varies depending on doctoral program, HHL or DA leaves the dissertation to the examiner.
8–7 weeks	Review completed. The form ”Summary of quality review” is completed by HHL and signed by HHL and the examiner / DA.	Supervisor/HHL/DA
6–5 weeks	Application of licentiate seminar / doctoral thesis defence. Summary of advance review, distribution list and CV of members of the grade committee who are not docents or professors are submitted to the Third Cycle Education Office (in original). Please do not send anything by e-mail.	HHL
4–3 weeks	After a decision on the examination has been received by e-mail, the essay / thesis is printed (in a minimum of 30 copies). For TRITA numbers contact: phdsupport@itm.kth.se ISBN number request from KTHB	HHL, doctoral student
At least 3 weeks before seminar / dissertation	Publication in DIVA. A printed copy for the Third Cycle Education Office. Posting a doctoral or licentiate thesis	Doctoral student

ISBN Request

Posting a doctoral or licentiate thesis

Service Center's support at Dissertation and Licentiate

Thesis, thesis defence and qualification (information from KTH)

Application for a degree

After completing the education, the degree is applied for in the personal menu on KTH's web.

Templates

Mall för industridoktorandavtal (doc 48 kB) (in Swedish only)
Mall doktorandfinansiering 2024 (xlsx 151 kB) (in Swedish only)
Guide to doctoral studies at ITM (pdf 3.7 MB)
Registration number: M-2017-1166, KS-code: 1.2

Contacts

The doctoral education at the ITM school is led by the Directors of Third-Cycle Education (FA) in consultation with the Third-Cycle Education Committee (FU). FU consists of all Program Director's of third-cycle Education, administrators and doctoral student representatives.

In addition, many people are involved in the doctoral education. Supervisors are responsible for guiding the students through their studies and the postgraduate Education Office helps with practical questions.

Contacts for doctoral students

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