Graduate school

A graduate program is usually temporary, systematically applied studies and research program with the aim to obtain a doctoral degree. In a broader sense, the term generally refers to groups of doctoral students that are for the purpose joint research and work, formed under the scientific guidance of university teachers. For the graduate program various expressions are used, such as graduate school, structured doctoral program, graduate school, graduate school or doctoral program, in Switzerland, Pro * Doc.

Organization

Organized and funded such programs both universities, in cooperation with designated research areas of technical colleges, as well as foundations. Mentored by one or more high school teachers students can theme centered in a comprehensive research related to familiarize themselves. The aim of the college is on the one hand, scientific research to bundle content to structure organizational on the other, the work of graduate students. The doctoral students are frequently hired or get a scholarship. Most include a Graduate College regular courses, special courses, seminars, colloquia, college conferences or workshops.

The TU9 criticized this paradigm shift as Verschulung, now grab the Promotion after the introduction of the Bachelor / Master system for the study. PhD students might instead be seen as already working scientists.

Facility

In Germany in particular, the German Research Foundation funded Research Training Group. In Austria, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF ) promotes the establishment of doctoral programs. In Switzerland, financed in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation Research Training Group. The end of 2002 the German Science Council has the wide-ranging possible introduced graduate schools required to improve doctoral education.

The pros and cons of graduate colleges were among others very informative for economic computer science discussed (see Heinzl 2008).

Other forms

Besides formally constituted Research Training initiatives of young scientists have arisen in some departments that keep professors without a colloquium, and support each other.

Furthermore, there are also inter-university graduate colleges and transnational collaborations, such as the Virtual Graduate School, work together in which doctoral students from Freiburg, Münster and Tübingen, or the Nordic Network for Ph.D. Courses, the courses of the universities in Lüneburg, Hamburg, Flensburg and Syddansk - Universitet as well as various non-university research institutions bundles and opens the PhD students of the member institutions.

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