Built Environment

Scientific title

doktor znanosti/doktorica znanosti (abbreviation: dr.)

in English language: Doctor of Philosophy (abbreviation: Ph.D.)

About the programme

The doctoral programme in the Built Environment is a scientific study programme in the fields of civil engineering, geodesy, planning and spatial planning, and geology. By studying in the programme, doctoral students acquire the ability to think scientifically and solve scientific questions, and are trained to collaborate in solving complex professional issues with an interdisciplinary approach.The main objective of the doctoral study programme is to train highly qualified researchers in specific scientific fields. Upon completion of the doctoral programme, the doctoral student will be trained to address research problems using state-of-the-art scientific methods, to critically assess research results and to transfer new technologies and knowledge into practice.

Programme website

Admission requirements and application for enrolment

For the call for enrolment, candidates have to apply on the eVŠ online portal.

At the latest at the time of enrolment, the candidate must submit a written agreement from the mentor or possible co-mentor to accept the mentoring or co-mentoring. At the same time, the candidate must also submit a brief conceptual outline of the research.

Enrolment in the doctoral programme in the Built Environment is open to graduates of:

Second-cycle study programmes.
Study programmes leading to professions regulated by EU directives, if they are evaluated at 300 credits, or other integrated master's degree programmes evaluated at 300 credits.
A former study programme leading to a specialisation following completion of a professional higher education programme. Before enrolling in the third-cycle doctoral programme, such candidates will be set additional course units consisting of up to 60 credits by the Doctoral Studies Committee for Built Environment.
Former study programmes leading to a master of science degree or specialisation after completion of a study programme leading to an academic higher education qualification. Study requirements totalling at least 60 credits are recognised for such candidates in a third-cycle doctoral study programme.
Former study programmes leading to an academic higher education qualification, adopted before 11 June 2004.

Enrolment in the Built Environment doctoral study programme is also open to graduates of foreign universities. The equivalence of previously acquired education in a foreign country will be established by means of the procedure for the recognition of foreign qualifications for the purposes of further education in accordance with the Statutes of the University of Ljubljana.

In the event of restricted enrolment, candidates will be selected based on:

grade point average (15%),
grade of undergraduate diploma or master’s thesis (5%) and
performance in the selection exam (80%), which comprises a written exam in the field of natural sciences and engineering.

Candidates can substitute 40% of the written exam grade with a grade from prior scientific and professional work in the field of the study programme.

The main criteria for scientific work are published items such as:

scholarly monograph,
independent scholarly composition within a monograph,
original scholarly articles in journals with an impact factor (JCR) or in journals indexed in SCI, SSCI or A&HCI databases.

The main criteria for professional work are as follows:

professional monograph or review work,
independent professional composition within a monograph,
published professional papers from conferences,
professional articles and/or reviewing of such articles,
editorship of monograph or journal,
other forms of documented professional activity.

Tuition

Tuition fees and other study contributions are available here:

UL Price List

Programme coordinator

prof. dr. Dejan Zupan

Contacts

Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo, Jamova cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana

iztok.loviscek@fgg.uni-lj.si