Fill in an application form in Studyinfo.fi and make sure you have all the required documents available before you start (please see section Files below).

Note! LUT Doctoral School student services are closed on July 9-28, during which applications will not be processed.

Obligatory attachments:

• Doctoral study plan (separate templates for junior researchers and self-funded applicants)
• Commitment forms filled in by the supervisors (one form for each supervisor with all necessary signatures)
• Copies of higher university degree certificate and transcript of records. If your degree was awarded outside Finland, please contact LUT Doctoral School regarding the delivery of verified documents.
• Copies of Bachelor degree certificate and transcript of records
• A copy of an international passport
• Further information form regarding sanctions and CV from the applicant
• Further information form regarding sanctions and CV from the supervisors external to LUT University. Note! Externail supervisors must send the further information form directly to LUT Doctoral School (doctoral.studies@lut.fi) Applicants do not include it in the attachments in Studyinfo.

To be attached, if applicable:

• A plan for supplementary studies
• Coordinating supervisor's statement of the applicant's suitability for pursuing doctoral studies

Prepare the doctoral study plan together with your supervisors-to-be, because they have to accept it before you submit the application to Studyinfo. 

Study attainments included in a doctoral degree may not date back more than seven years. On special grounds an exception can be made, please see further information on the page Planning your studies. The expiration of studies after seven years should be taken into account especially if you intend to study part-time, which means that to complete your studies will take longer than the four-year target time.

Each doctoral student has to create a personal study plan (PSP) in Sisu after the right to study has been awarded. 

Instructions for compiling the doctoral study plan

Any use of generative AI in creating text needs to be clearly disclosed and its role in generating the document needs to be described as part of the research plan.

Research plan

• Economics and Business Administration: the length of the research plan is 10-15 pages including a list of references 

Schedule (a plan for 3-4 years)

• If you estimate that you doctoral studies will last longer than four years, please clarify the reason in the plan (for example studying part-time while working). 
• A plan for a possible mobility period
• Graduation estimate

Study plan for the doctoral degree (instructions)

• Not to be attached to the application.
• Please create a personal study plan (PSP) in Sisu after the right to study has been awarded. 

Only self-funded applicants: motivation for applying the right to study for doctoral education

• The supervision plan also explains the responsibilities of the student, the supervisors and other possible parties involved.