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Terms of admission for studies in academic year 2024–2025
The admissions procedure starts with the
submission, by 30 April 2024, of a correctly filled-in application form and payment
of the fee for services connected with the admissions procedure.
CONDITIONS FOR ACCEPTANCE:
● Completed tertiary education at
master’s level, with documentary evidence submitted by 30 September 2024.
Applicants sitting the final state examination during the autumn examination
period and applicants for whom no decision has been made on their application
for the recognition of foreign education by 30 September 2024 have until 22
October 2024 to submit the required documentation.
Graduates of Czech higher education institutions (HEU) must prove their
fulfilment of this condition by submission of an officially verified copy of
their diploma or, if applicable, the original of confirmation of their
completion of the required level of education (as a temporary measure before
they receive their diploma). This requirement does not apply to graduates of
master’s degree courses at Charles University.
Graduates of foreign HEU must prove their fulfilment of this condition in one
of the ways listed on the website below: https://en.lf1.cuni.cz/recognition-of-foreign-diplomas-and-degreess
● Pass in the admission examination
ADMISSION PROCEDURE:
Applicants will receive an invitation to their
admission interview online through the Study Information System (SIS).
● The admission examination takes the
form of a single paper consisting of one or more parts. The format of
examinations is specified for each individual degree programme.
● In the admission examination
applicants must demonstrate their technical and linguistic capabilities for
study in the relevant study programme and their prospects for independent
research work.
As part of the admissions procedure we also determine the applicant’s interest
in dealing with a specific topic with a specific supervisor.
Official Regular dates of entrance interviews for PhD study:
01.06.2024 - 30.06.2024
The exact dates of admission interviews set by the relevant subject-area board here.
Substitute dates: 06.06.2024 - 31.07.2024
Applicants can only request a substitute date for serious, documented reasons,
in particular for health reasons, and within three days of the official date of
an examination. Applications are submitted and processed through the University’s
Study Information System (SIS).
The Dean may permit the sitting of an
admission examination by means of information and communication technology for
serious, documented reasons, in particular for reasons of health or study
abroad, based on an application submitted through the University’s online
information system, generally following the receipt of an application by the
faculty and no later than 10 May 2024.
Information on degree programmes and the
admissions procedure is available from the Dean’s Office (CU First Faculty of
Medicine, Department for Science, Kateřinská 32, Praha 2).
Opening hours:
Monday 08:00 – 12:30, Tuesday and Thursday 12:30 – 15:30.
Essential requirements for the application:
Applications must be submitted online through
the Study Information System (SIS) by 30 April 2024:
https://is.cuni.cz/studium/, Admissions Procedure icon.
We prefer applications to be submitted online.
When submitting their application, applicants
must pay a fee for services connected with the admissions procedure to the
amount of CZK 780 for online applications or CZK 830 for applications in
hard copy. In the event of failure to pay the fee to the faculty’s bank account
by 30 April 2024, the faculty shall request payment of the fee from the
applicant within an appropriate deadline. In the event of failure to pay within
this deadline, the procedure will be stopped following a decision.
In the event
that an application is submitted to the faculty after 30 April 2024, the
faculty will stop the procedure following a decision.
Attachments to the application:
1. Attachment to the application for study –
including, if applicable, a commitment by the proposed supervisor to perform
this function. The form for the attachment to the application for study is
available here.
2. Doctoral project – annotations for doctoral
project, which must be signed by the prospective supervisor.
A list of active supervisors is available here: Any applicable requirements for the structure
and essential requirements for annotations for individual study programmes can
be found on this website (in the event that the relevant programme has specific
requirements for annotations).
3. Help files for the admissions procedure –
for the Experimental Surgery study programme only.
a) Written consent of the head of the
workplace for the applicant’s project to be realised at the workplace for which
they are responsible.
b) Every project must be accompanied by a
statement by the ethics commission. This must be attached in hard copy.
4. Evidence of a master’s degree
a) Students of master’s programmes:
Confirmation of ongoing master’s studies issued by the student registry.
b) Graduates of master’s programmes: Graduates
of CU must submit the usual unverified copy of their diploma and graduates of
Czech universities other than CU must submit an officially verified copy of
their diploma. If an applicant does not yet have their diploma, they must
submit confirm of the completion of studies issued by the student registry.
c) Master’s diploma obtained at a foreign HEU
(including Slovakia): one of the documents concerning foreign qualifications,
see website.
5. Overview of previous activities – list of
published and unpublished papers by the applicant (or peer reviews of these
papers) and other documents worthy of attention (e.g. documentation of
specialist courses completed).
6. CV
All attachments to online applications must
also be sent in hard copy to the faculty at the following address no later than
30 April 2024:
Děkanát 1. LF UK
Oddělení pro vědeckou činnost
Kateřinská 32
128 01 Praha 2
Doctoral study programmes in Biomedicine implemented on the basis of the Framework Agreement between Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry
Biomedical Informatics
Cell Biology and Pathology
Developmental and Cell Biology
Experimental Surgery
Human Physiology and Pathophysiology
Imaging Methods in Medicine
Immunology
Medical Biophysics
Microbiology
Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genetics and Virology
Neurosciences
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology
Other doctoral study programmes
Addiction: Specialization in Health Care
Bioethics
Cardiovascular Science
History of Medicine
Medical Psychology and Psychopathology
Nutritional and Metabolic Sciences
Parasitology
Admission conditions and terms in the academic year 2024/2025
- Submission of electronic application with all requisites
by 30. 4. 2024.
- Payment of a fee for expenses of admission procedures CZK 780 by 30. 4. 2024 at the latest.
- Successful passing of the entrance exam before the
committee of the relevant subject area board.
- Successful completion of a master's degree program, ie
submission of a university diploma or certificate of recognition of foreign
higher education in the Czech Republic.
The verification of the application requirements necessary for the acceptance: 30. 9. 2024.
The verification is prolonged until 22nd October 2024 for the applicants whose application for recognition of their foreign diploma was not considered until 30th September 2024.
Unless the Faculty’s account is credited with the sum of the fee by 30. 4. 2024 at the latest, the Faculty will invite the applicant for studies to pay the fee, allowing an adequate time for the payment. If the fee is not paid before the set deadline, the procedure will be suspended. At any stage of the procedure, the fee for expenses connected with admission procedures is unreturnable.
If the application is
delivered to the faculty after 30. 4. 2024, the
application procedure will be suspended.
The invitation to the entrance examination will be delivered to the applicants
through SIS (Student Information System). The applicant will obtain the
password for SIS when making the application.
Annual tuition fee is CZK 1000/year for study programmes in English language.
Information about the fee for admission procedures:
Account number in IBAN format:
CZ9701000000000037434021
SWIFT code of the bank
(BIC): KOMBCZPPXXX
Account number: 37434021/0100
Variable symbol: ID of the electronic application
Specific symbol: 3006
The applicant for studies is
obliged to cover any costs of mailing and banking. In case of international
banking transfer, use the option of “OUR” banking fees.
The fee can also be paid on lodging the application through a banking
card WU
Student Payment Solutions.
Description of the entrance examination and criteria of evaluation
The applicant shall take the entrance examination
before the board of the respective Field Council.
The entrance examination is in the form of an
interview, which is above all to test the professional knowledge and language
skills as well as the applicant’s capacity of independent scientific work in
the chosen field. Part of the interview is discussion of the presented project
of the doctoral thesis (presentation of the project of the doctoral thesis
together with the chosen Supervising Tutor).
Go to ELECTRONIC APPLICATION.