Advice on the admission application form to doctoral studies

1. When creating the application, choose Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, language of instruction English, form and type of study full-time doctoral or combined doctoral. The difference between the full-time and combined form is commented below in points 4 and 5.

   Then select the study program you want to apply to. If every study program appears twice, once with DSP II and once without it, please select a variant that is not marked DSP II. Then click on „Create“.

2. The application form offers you a selection of doctoral thesis advisors for your selected program and form of study. This field can be found almost at the end of the application form, before the final questionnaire. From the listed advisors, you must select one and upload their consent to the application as a mandatory attachment . It is therefore recommended to contact the selected advisor before completing the application form and communicate with them in advance. Upload the advisor's consent in the PDF format with their scanned hand signature or an electronic signature. It suffices if the advisor writes something like „I am willing to become an advisor of the candidate XY if he is admitted to doctoral studies.“ with the advisor's name, date, and signature.

3. The application also contains an optional field Intended dissertation topic. You do not have to fill in this field, but if you have at least a rough idea of ​​your dissertation topic, write it down. Whatever you write here is not binding for the actual dissertation topic, that will be determined after your acceptance.

4. A doctoral student enrolled in the full-time form of study is entitled to receive a minimum doctoral income of at least 1.2-multiple of the Czech minimal wage. This is stipulated by an amendment to the Higher Education Act, which comes into force in the fall of 2025. Students in a combined form do not have this privilege, but that does not mean that they cannot receive a scholarship or salary. The difference is that the faculty is responsible for the financing of full-time students and must ensure their doctoral incomes but a combined student is supported primarily by the supervisor and depends on supervisor's projects and grants. Also, a combined student does not have the same student advantages as a full-time student, these differences are explained in more detail on the UK website. More seriously, international students who need a visa or a residency permit may be denied it if they enroll in a combined form.

5. Whether you will be admitted to the full-time or combined form form of study is however not determined by the form of study you choose in the application form.

   Upon completion of the oral entrance exam, candidates for the full-time form of a particular study program will be sorted by the total number of points reached in the admission process. Then it will be decided how many of them can be admitted to the full-time form of study, depending on the number of points reached and possibilities of financing. That number of applicants, in the decreasing order of the points, will be admitted to full-time study. The others who earned the minimum number of points needed for acceptance (45 out of 65) but were not admitted to the full-time form, will be offered admission to the combined form only. If they accept this offer within seven days they will be admitted to the combined form, otherwise admission will be denied.

   Similarly, a candidate who originally applied for the combined form and has achieved a sufficient number of points to be admitted to the full-time form of study, can receive an offer of admission to the full-time form if sufficient resources are available to finance the minimum income for the duration of the study.

   Thus it makes little sense to submit an application to both forms of study of the same study program, you do not gain anything and unnecessarily pay two application fees.