Application

Prospective students can apply online for the doctoral program throughout the academic year. Each application is dealt with by the Doctoral Committee, which meets seven times a year. Only complete applications that have reached the academic secretariat no later than a week before the meeting will be scheduled in the meeting in question. In order to be able to take part in the doctoral week in September as a new doctoral student, the application should be dealt with at the latest at the meeting in June.

The meeting dates of the Doctoral Committee for the academic year 2025-2026 are:

September 17, 2025
December 3, 2025
March 11, 2026
April 29, 2026
June 17, 2026
August 19, 2026
September 16, 2026

For questions, please contact the coordinator of the PhD program, Prof. Dr. Kobus Kok or the academic secretariat. Interested students can contact a potential supervisor or research institute of ETF Leuven in advance, in order to make their research interest known.