Admission at the GSMS

All PhD candidates from the Faculty of Medical Sciences need to be officially admitted to the PhD programme by the Graduate School of Medical Sciences (GSMS)*. You can request your admission by using our registration form. It is important that you do this as soon as possible. This is possible up to two months before your starting date.

*Without the admission by the GSMS, your are not officially a PhD candidate and not able to defend the thesis.

Requirements for admission in the PhD programme:

• Candidates whose degree is not equivalent to a Dutch WO MSc degree are not automatically admitted. For international candidates, the diploma must always be validated and verified. If a degree is not equivalent to a Dutch WO MSc, the GSMS must be consulted before admission. Additionally, candidates who are enrolled in a Master programme and do not have a Dutch WO Master’s degree (or equivalent) are not admitted to the PhD programme, except for (D)MD/PhD candidates.

• For international candidates from non-English-speaking countries/studies, an average IELTS score of 6.5 is required, as well as a minimum score of 6.0 on each part in the same test; or TOEFL score of 92 with a minimum score of 21 on the parts in the same test. These requirements have been established by the Doctoral Board of the RuG.

• PhD candidates will only be considered for admission once funding, either salary or scholarship, for the full duration of the project has been guaranteed. GSMS will follow up on projects with less than three years of funding, with exception for (D)MD/PhD and sandwich PhD projects. Extensions are possible if additional funding becomes available and – where applicable – the partner university agrees.