PhD Committee
Doctoral Committee for the Award of the Doctor oeconomiae publicae (Dr. oec. publ.) of the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.

Doctoral Committee for the Award of the Doctor oeconomiae publicae (Dr. oec. publ.) of the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.
PhD deadlines for the winter semester 2025/2026
Submission of the dissertation with documents: September 15 to 19, 2025
Preparation of the first report: by November 14, 2025
Preparation of the second opinion: by December 26, 2025
Circulation to the oral examiners and display: Dec. 29 to Jan. 09, 2026
Oral examinations (economics only): January 12 to 23, 2026
Final doctoral consultation: Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
A special permit for doctoral studies is required if the university degree is “foreign” or from abroad (roughly speaking: everything except M.Sc. in business administration or economics). It must be submitted by the time the dissertation is submitted at the latest.
The doctoral committee decides on the applications at its meetings at least once every semester (see “Doctoral deadlines”).
The submission deadline for complete applications (incl. copy of certificates and CV) is two weeks before the committee meeting/Promotionsabschlussberatung at the latest.
Please submit original applications for business studies (BWL) directly to the secretariat of the doctoral committee, Ludwigstr. 28 VG/EG, room 04.
(BWL): Application for special permission to do a doctorate (DOCX, 12 KB)
Please submit original applications for economics (VWL) to the office of the doctoral committee for economics, Ludwigstraße 28 RG/ EG, room 19.
(VWL): Application for special permission to do a doctorate (DOCX, 14 KB)
Please note that the use of the university logo of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität is not permitted in the deposit copies to be submitted to the Dissertation Office of the University Library.
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