Degree / Certificates

After successful participation, the ZEF Doctoral Studies Program issues individual certificates of each course and a final transcripts of all courses courses after sucessful termination of the doctoral study.

After completing the study program at ZEF, the participants obtain a doctoral degree in sociology, political science, social anthropology, economics, agricultural economics, agriculture, forestry, mathematics or natural science, which is granted by the respective university faculty. Students may pursue their doctoral study under direct supervision of ZEF professors but can also be associated with ZEF while being supervised elsewhere. Arrangements within the selected German university are made to ensure that a student is accepted by a distinguished advisor and is acceptable to his/her faculty.

The majority of doctoral students are supervised and examined by professors of the the University of Bonn. But the doctoral degree may also be obtained within sandwich programs at other qualified universities in Europe or overseas.