The Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship application for the 2025/2026 academic year is open from 15 November 2024 until 15 January 2025. For more information please visit our Stipendium Hungaricum page.
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The Hungarian Diaspora Scholarship application for the 2025/2026 academic year is open from 15 November 2024 until 31 January 2025. For more information please visit our Hungarian Diaspora Scholarship page.
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The Faculty of Law is famous for its excellent graduate courses and valued degrees. Our Doctoral School is based on the esteemed training skills and scholarly capacities of the teaching staff of this Faculty, and it is deeply devoted to the ethical and cultural values represented by the University. Internationality and multidisciplinarity are highly supported and embodied in our doctoral training.
The main goal of our doctoral program is to contribute to a high value of legal thinking and legal reasoning in the next generations of lawyers. The advantages of being trained in scholarly research support you in your entire professional life: it is a real virtue which distinguish you among your colleagues.
Our Doctoral School offers a wide range of obligatory and optional courses which introduce our students into different research methods. Our supervisors constantly take care of the development of the doctoral thesis of our PhD students. We offer an accredited full-time PhD program with a highly qualified staff.
We recommend our postgraduate doctoral training for foreign students who have a Master degree (diploma) in Law, in Social Sciences or in Economics – and aim to achieve a PhD degree in Law and Political Sciences. Hungarian students are also welcome if their research topic requires to investigate and publish in English.
Head of Doctoral School: Prof. Dr. Éva Jakab, DSc
The training program provides a high level of knowledge in theoretical and methodological aspects of academic research and enables participants to deepen their professional knowledge in a variety of legal disciplines.
The curriculum is adapted to the branch of science of the Doctoral School, therefore it conveys scholarly knowledge in all important fields of law and political sciences, and also encourages the acquisition of methodological knowledge necessary for obtaining a scientific degree and scientific activity.
The curriculum includes 16 obligatory courses, most of which are of a methodological nature to support the individual research work of PhD students. The number of alternative courses is significantly higher than the number of obligatory ones, which also gives the students the opportunity to deepen themselves in the fields of science important for their individual research under the guidance of experienced lecturers.
Doctoral training program
Prescribed credit points for the absolutorium (pre-degree certificate): 240 credit points
Type of training:
Entry requirements:
Application documents:
Please note, that applications will be considered complete only after the university has received the application fee.
I. Self-financing applicants
Tuition fee: 700.000 HUF / semester (approx. 1900 EUR / semester)
Self funding applicants shall submit their documentation via our Online Application Platform.
Please check our scholarship site for the scholarship opportunities:
https://english.kre.hu/index.php/study-programmes-in-foreign-languages/scholarships-for-international-students.html
Secretary of Doctoral School: Dr. Péter Nagy, senior lecturer, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Address: KRE ÁJK Állam- és Jogtudományi Doktori Iskola, 1042 Budapest, Viola utca 2-4.
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