New admission round starts with online registration from 12-17 June 2026.

Under the guidance of your potential supervisor, prepare a concept for your doctoral dissertation, which is one of the required documents in the recruitment process.

If the candidate has obtained from the supervisor (an academic employee of the University of Lodz) a consent to take him/her under supervision, he/she submits a statement of the potential supervisor on his/her willingness to take on the supervision (sample available at step 4).

If the candidate has not obtained such a consent, he/she submits an application for appointing a selected person who has the right to act as a supervisor as a supervisor of his/her doctoral dissertation (template available at step 4).

Supervisor is not required at this stage of enrolment (rather optional). Candidate might apply without knowing the potential supervisor.

Enrollment/Registration - Electronic registration for  PhD studies is possible between 12.07 - 17.06.2026

Remember to print out the application form from the Electronic Recruitment System!

Go to the Electronic Recruitment System (link)

Prepare legible scans or photos of all the paper documentation you are to submit as part of the admission process, and attach them by uploading them to the IRK system within the time frame allowed in the Admission Timetable for submission of your documents. Each scan file should include the applicant's full name and an indication of the kind of the scanned document, according to the following scheme: Forename_Surname_Heading of scanned document

Notice: after submitting documents in the IRK System you're obliged to submit them in a paper formif you're accepted till the day of signing the oath

Test date:  01.07.2026

These are sample tests.

The interviews will be held between 7-10.07.2026 according to the following criteria:

(a) evaluation of the dissertation project - its substantive value and scientific innovation, and, in the case of the Implementation Doctorate programme, the practical usefulness of the solutions

b) evaluation of the candidate's familiarity with the literature on the subject, knowledge of previous achievements of Polish and foreign science concerning the issues to be researched, as well as knowledge of specialist terminology and methodology of the planned research

c) evaluation of the presentation skills of the project (linguistic proficiency, composition of the speech, discipline of speech)

Interviews:  8-11.07.2024 depending on the number of candidates. Details of the interview date and time will be sent to registered candidates via IRK system message.

Information about admission will be shown in IRK system on candidate’s account till 22.07.2026 (or till 19.09.2026 for candidates with an external funding). Written decision about rejection will be sent by traditional post to the correspondence address provided at candidate's account.