Admission

In order to be admitted and enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, you must meet the following requirements and have:

• an approved educational qualification (Master's degree or equivalent.)
• sufficient financing for living costs and the research project
• suggested supervisors. List of our academic staff, sorted by research field
• an approved project description, which is a research plan often developed in cooperation with potential supervisors
• a plan for the training component: PhD-courses and presentations at conferences etc.
• departmental affiliation at UiB for those employed by an institution other than UiB
• a research field for the PhD studies in which UiB professors have research interests and qualifications for supervision  

Funding

In order to become eligible for admission and enrol as a PhD candidate, you must first have secured funding that covers both living costs and the costs relating to the research project for the entire doctoral training period. This could be a university fellowship of three or four years, a three-year scholarship from the Research Council of Norway or another external funding source.

At the Faculty of Law, the vast majority of the PhD candidates hold positions as research fellows during their doctoral training period, usually of 3 or 4 years duration. When a  position is available, it will be advertised on our website www.uib.no/jur.

Please note that admission is only possible after you have documented sufficient funding to cover the costs relating to the doctoral training period, or have been appointed to a PhD fellowship.

Admission at the university is dependent on your being selected on the basis of your merits as a student as well as your work experience and your project description. Further information, including Handbook for doctoral education(PhD) at UIB, Application forms and Regulations, can be found on the University of Bergen's PhD portal.   

• Application form 

Send your application to:

Det juridiske fakultet
Postboks 7806
5020 Bergen

Norway

Further questions?

Email us on phd@jur.uib.no or call PhD Coordinator Mari Myren: +47 55 58 49 86.