Dear First Year Student,

Please check the most useful information about autumn 2025.

Doctoral student information autumn 2025

Informational Meeting for Students of the Doctoral School

We cordially invite you to an informational meeting, where you will receive information on issues affecting your studies and get to know our staff.
At the event, you can ask questions to the Secretariat of the Doctoral Schools and the Doctoral Students Union.

The event is recommended to all our students due to the introduction of the new Organisational and Operational Regulations.

Date and time: 25 September 2025. 04.00 PM

Venue: ELTE PPK, Budapest, Kazinczy Street 23-27. Room 4, Ground Floor

The event will be held in English.

We are looking forward to seeing you

• Educational Management Office: in academic affairs and  in connection with the procedure of obtaining a doctoral degree
• International Office: about mobility of students, regarding Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship
• the staff of the Secretariat of the Doctoral Schools in other matters

Contact information: https://www.ppk.elte.hu/en/eduscience/administration

The link above also contains a detailed description of which office can help you in which cases.

In relation to doctoral training within the University, it is worthwhile to read the following regulations:

• Doctoral Regulations,
• and its Annex 6/4: Doctoral Regulations of the Faculty of Education and Psychology
• For further information about the functioning of the NDI, please read Educational Operational Regulations

Please note the year in which you started your studies (before 2016 or in 2016 or after 2016).

The regulations are available here.

During the entire training, the student must complete 252 credits, of which are

• 84 course credits
• 112 research credits
• 44 education credits
• 12 credits available for preparing for the complex exam and preparing the research plan.

The training can be divided into two phases, separated by the complex exam.

1. Training and research phase: the student must complete 84 course credits and min. 24 research credits to be able to take the complex exam. By passing the complex exam, the student can enter the second phase of the training.
2. Research and dissertation phase: it is necessary to complete the remaining research and teaching credits until graduation.

The students must complete the training in a maximum of eight active semesters and submit their dissertation within three years of the complex exam (you can find more detailed information on this under the menu item For First Year Students --> Obtainment Procedure).

All students must complete three modules (subject groups). The student can find out about the modules to be completed in their admission decision.

The Theoretical and Research Methodology modules are compulsory for all students at the Doctoral School of Education. The third module is the student’s program module.

To complete the modules, the student must complete three subjects from each module and one optional subject, so a total of min. 12 courses. In addition to the three compulsory module subjects, all subjects from the modules prescribed for the student and, in addition, any other subject of the Doctoral School of Education and Psychology is considered freely optional.

IMPORTANT! Only subjects included in the student’s curriculum are considered mandatory subjects for the student! The current curriculum is here: https://www.ppk.elte.hu/en/eduscience/curriculum-and-system-of-credits under: Curriculum of the Doctoral School of Education Sciences

User guide

Searching Courses

1. Subjects, Register for subject, Terms: current semester, All other subjects in the institution, Subject code: dedu or dnev-szv:

or

2. Information, Subject/Course list, Terms: current semester, Organizational unit: if you start to type ppk, then chose PPK_PHD Neveléstudományi Doktori Iskola (PPK-PHD-NEV-DI), list subjects. Than you can see all the courses announced by the Doctoral Scool of Education for this semester.

Timetable informations

The aim of the complex exam is to assess the theoretical preparedness and the scientific progress of the candidate.

Detailed information about the process and topics of the complex exam is available on the website: https://www.ppk.elte.hu/en/eduscience/complex-exam

The guidance of the Doctoral School of Education on the settlement of research and teaching credits is available on the website: 
https://ppk.elte.hu/en/eduscience/documents

The credit application form contains the progress report and you must use this form to register your the required research and teaching credits.

At the end of the semester, it must be uploaded in the Neptun system, with the completed credits, and approved by the supervisor and the also the head of the program.

The students must submit the credit application form once at the end of the semester: about the activities carried out. The doctoral school administration recommends that students consult with their supervisors at the beginning of the semester to plan and schedule the activities to be completed during the semester. These activities will be recognized upon submission of the credit application form at the end of the semester.

The Registrar’s Office records the credits completed by the student in Neptun based on the credit application form.

Submitting the credit application form ALWAYS requires the supervisor’s approval (if there is one, the co-supervisor) and the program leader’s! Without it, the credit application form is not acceptable.

The credit application form is also not acceptable at the end of the semester if the “to be completed at the end of the semester” column is not filled in!

The deadline of submitting the credit application form at the end of the semester 2025/26/1:

In case you take the complex exam at the end of the current semester: 8 December 2025, 4 p.m.
In case you do not take the complex exam at the end of the current semester: 7 January 2026, 4 p.m.

You can find information regarding the submission of the credit application form on the following webpage: https://ppk.elte.hu/en/student_administration/general_information/doctoral_programmes 
Please read the instructions thoroughly.

IMPORTANT: If the student has an active student status for the semester but he/she fails to submit the credit application form before the deadline set by the Doctoral School, or the submission is incomplete and sent without the obligatory approvals, the student must pay a late fee for missing an administrative deadline.

If the Doctoral School finds the credit application form incorrect or incomplete, it will be returned to Neptun for correction.

Every doctoral program holds workshops for its students every semester. Participation in the workshops is strongly recommended. For participation, the student can claim research credit instead of course credit if he/she indicates this on his/her credit application form. Three credits per semester can be registered for the workshop.

The dates and locations of the workshops will be published on the website under the Students --> Courses.

The training plan aims for the student to prepare for the first four semesters, i.e. the training and research phase plan your studies. (Since it is a plan, it is possible to deviate from it in later semesters.)

All first-year students must submit the study plan to the Secretariat of the Doctoral Schools at the e-mail address ndi@ppk.elte.hu by the last day of the academic training period, with the approval of the supervisor and the program manager.

The list of courses planned to be announced by the doctoral programmes in the next two academic years is available on the website of the doctoral school. The document is available under the menu Courses.

A template for the Training Plan is available under the Documents menu item.

Assistance for professional trips and conference participation: Applications may be submitted continuously and are evaluated every 2-3 months. Further information here.

Tenders, grants announced by ELTE can be found here.

For assistance for publication costs, apply at palyazat@ppk.elte.hu.

Proof reading, editing services: The faculty has phased out this form of support.

Cost of Open Access publications in case of journals rated Q1, maybe Q2 with an impact factor (so called predator journals are not supported, these periodicals and publishers are to be avoided). The evaluation is continuous depending on available funds.

In addition to its website, the doctoral school maintains contact with students through a mailing list.

The Doctoral School offers a subscription to the mailing list to all first-year students. Signing up is strongly recommended because although many invitations are also available on the website, students can quickly find out about information, deadlines, etc., without searching through the mailing list.

If you have not yet signed up and would like to do so or would like to unsubscribe, please notify the Secretariat of the Doctoral Schools of your intention to the e-mail address ndi@ppk.elte.hu.

Feel free to contact us with any questions or problems! 

Our contact details: ppkdok@ppkdok.elte.hu and elnok@ppkdok.elte.hu