Eligibility and selection for doctoral courses
Doctoral courses at Karolinska Institutet (KI) are open for doctoral students at all universities and colleges as well as for KI post docs and other applicants holding a PhD. Admission is based primarily on general and secondarily course-specific selection criteria.
Eligibility
Only applicants who are either doctoral students or hold a PhD are eligible for admission.
Some courses may also have specific entry requirements, i e prerequisite courses (or equivalent). In these cases, this is stated in the syllabus.
Selection criteria for doctoral courses
A selection procedure has to be performed if there are more applicants than places available. How this selection is performed is indicated below.
General selection criteria
The following priority is applicable when KI has the main responsibility for the course:
1. Doctoral students admitted to doctoral education at Karolinska Institutet
If you have an ongoing application for doctoral education at KI, please see category 4.
Doctoral students in collaborative agreements within doctoral education at KI are treated equally with KI doctoral students. The collaborative agreements in question are listed on the following page:
International collaborations within doctoral education
2. Post docs at KI
Applicants in this eligibility category must be able to verify that they have:
- a postdoc position at KI or Region Stockholm that is valid at the time of the course, or
- another job title than postdoc, but have obtained their PhD within the past five years and devote the majority of their working time to their own research.
3. Doctoral students from other universities
Admitted to doctoral education at a university in Sweden or abroad.
4. Other applicants
This category includes applicants with a PhD (other than postdocs at KI, see above), e g teachers and researchers.
If you have an ongoing application to doctoral education and are expecting a decision before course admission has been carried out, you can apply for courses as eligibility category "other applicants”, and then supplement your application directly to the course provider with your admission certificate. During the admissions process, the course provider assesses each applicant as eligible or ineligible.
Course specific selection criteria
Within the above categories, selection is performed according to the criteria stated for each course in the course catalogue.
For most general science courses, start date as doctoral student is a selection criterion, but please see each course occasion for correct information. Please note: If the registration date as a doctoral student is incorrect in your personal profile, the application becomes invalid.