•  It is a combined study. Your visits at the faculty are restricted to consultations with your supervisor, experimental work and other duties usually not exceeding 30 days per year.   
•  The study is free of charge – when you study in standard period.
•  No scholarship will be paid to you.
•  No work load at our faculty will be given to you.
•  It is a Czech program, but applicants from worldwide can be admitted to this program. Knowledge of Czech language is not an obligation. It is enough when you speak English.  

1) Look at the offered themes of Ph.D. thesis for forthcoming academic year and select one of them. The themes are here.
2) Get in contact with supervisor written by the selected theme. In case of a mutual deal, complete the application form for the doctoral study HERE and print it.
3) Include all necessary attachments:   
• List of marks and credits from passed subjects of master’s study verified by the study department (office) of the respective university, where the student studied – this applies to applicants for doctoral study, who have a possibility to be accepted without an admission interview. This obligation is not for students of the FFPW USB.
• Verified copy of a diploma about terminated master’s study – Applicants, who terminate the master’s study in 2013, submit the proof of master’s study termination no later than the enrolment day to doctoral study. Provided that the graduation took place at a foreign university, the applicant submits a document about equivalence of foreign study and diploma with a study in a master’s study programme accredited at a university in the CR, issued by its rector’s decision, unless the international treaty provides otherwise.
• Brief structured curriculum vitae with details about achieved education, expert or scientific and research activities, list of publications and lectures, or reviews of expert activities.

•  Recommendation of an employer to applicant´s study.
4) Send the application form with attachments to address below by 10th May 2013

University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters
Czech Republic

 

5) Pay a fee of 500 CZK for processing of your application and admission procedure (see details below).
6) Wait until you are contacted by our study office with further instructions
7) In case of doubts, feel free to contact our study office. Contact is shown below.    

The graduates of master´s study (or master´s study equivalent) will be accepted without entrance interview:
-    Students who agreed with the supervisor from the FFPW USB on a PhD thesis  focusing on a theme which is close to their education
-    Students who document sufficient knowledge of English (e.g. with a certificate of achievement at certain level, successfully passing the exam at the university etc.)
-    Students who demonstrate sufficient practice, previous publication activity or other professional experience in documents supplied with an application form

Fulfilment of all requirements, which are condition for acceptance without entrance exams, shall be evaluated by the admission committee by the final date for invitation of applicants to admission interview at the latest.
In case the number of accepted students without admission exams does not reach the limit, the other applicants, who do not fulfil the requirements for admission without entrance exams, will be invited for an admission interview. Students who don´t appear for the interview without excuse will be excluded from the admission procedure. Students, who are unable to attend the interview, apologize in time and excuse will be accepted by the Dean, will be assessed by the admission committee in their absence based on the supplied materials.
The applicant must demonstrate a sufficiently wide base of general knowledge in animal biology, fisheries and water ecology during the admission interview. Knowledge of basic fishery literature with a clear idea of the topic of his/her thesis and the ways of dealing with the given issues, plus strong interest in scientific work are expected. Another part of the entrance exam is verification of the ability to communicate in English language by a form of an oral interview. The admission committee shall assign 0-10 points to the applicant on the basis of the oral interview. Another 0-20 points will be assigned to the applicant on the basis of information about previous education, experience, publication and pedagogical activity etc. Applicants with the highest score will be admitted to study up to the number of accepted students (after subtraction of students accepted without entrance exams). Every applicant with the same score, as the last admitted applicant gained, will be also accepted.
The admission procedure for doctoral field of study Fishery will take place in English language; other conditions for the admission procedure to doctoral study remain consistent with the ones mentioned above. Fees for study in English language are determined by the Dean of the faculty in a separate decision in advance before the term for submission of applications (10th May 2013).
The admission interview for doctoral study will take place on 6th June 2013.  Time and place of the admission interview will be specified in the invitation sent to the applicants to their name and address mentioned in the application, 14 days before the term of the admission interview at the latest.

Lucie Kačerová

study office of doctoral study of the FFPW USB

Tel.: +420 38 903 4636

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