In order to submit your dissertation to the TUM Center for Study and Teaching – Graduation Office and Academic Records – Office of Doctoral Affairs – Promotionen (Office of Doctoral Affairs), you must first register your dissertation topic. To do this, you will require two abstracts of your dissertation (one in English and one in German), each containing no more than 500 characters.
To register your dissertation topic, enter the details of your dissertation, along with the two abstracts (in the original language and a translation into either German or English), in mediaTUM. You will then receive a registration form (“Registration of Dissertation for the University Bibliography”), which you will need to submit with your dissertation.
What DO YOU NEED TO DO?
- Start the online workflow for dissertations on mediaTUM. Choose the language of the workflow (English or German). Afterwards please click on “Create/Erstellen”.
Next you will be able to fill out forms for your author and dissertation data, as well as two abstracts in English and German, each containing no more than 500 characters (not words!). After selecting the chair, please click on the button in the top right-hand corner to submit the entered data.
- You will then receive an email (subject line: Your Dissertation - Registration Form + ID + Name) with an automatically generated form for registering your dissertation topic.
Certain special characters (e.g., Greek letters) may not be displayed correctly in the generated PDF file. You are welcome to correct these characters manually afterwards. On mediaTUM, the special characters will still be displayed correctly.
It is not possible to change the information on mediaTUM later, as the registration form will not be regenerated. If you want to correct the text you entered, you can restart the workflow as often as you like. We will delete unused data records after the dissertation has been published.
- After completing the application ("Application for submission"), upload the form to DocGS as a PDF file together with the documents listed in BayernCollab.
These include:
- Dissertation
- Sworn statement in German/Affidavit (see Appendix 2 of the doctoral regulations)
- Tabular curriculum vitae in German
- As soon as you have received the email requesting you to print out the "Application for submission", submit the printed application together with the required documents to the Office of Doctoral Affairs by post/internal mail (“Hauspost”) or in person.
These include:
- Signed registration form
- Copy of the title page
- Signed sworn statement in German/Affidavit
- Tabular curriculum vitae in German
Note
Further information on the doctoral process can be found on the TUM Graduate School website.
If you do not have access to the BayernCollab page "Einreichung Dissertation | Submission of Dissertation" or need information about other required documents, please contact the Office of Doctoral Affairs.
