Preparation for a PhD in ten crucial steps at an University

Step 1: Choose a subject and a promoter

Step 2: Arrange the financing of your project

Step 3: Announce your doctoral proposal to the Board of Faculty

Step 4: Enrol as a doctoral student

Step 5: Prepare your doctorate : do research, write publications, participate in congresses, do teaching, …

Step 6: Arrange your doctoral defence

Step 7: Submit your doctoral thesis

Step 8: The examiners evaluate the doctoral thesis

Step 9: Enrol for your doctoral thesis

Step 10: Defend your doctoral thesis for a jury and public