Ruhr-Universität Bochum is one of the strongest research universities in Germany and hosts nearly all scientific disciplines on campus. Twenty faculties and numerous affiliated institutes offer a wide range of doctoral opportunities.

RUB supports you as an early career researcher who actively contributes to state-of-the-art research. You can conduct your individual doctoral research project on high standards in the research fields of all 20 faculties at RUB. You can use your own ideas and interests to work on a doctoral project and gain advanced research experience and individual qualification - driven by your personal motivation, initiative and responsibility. You will be fully integrated into the scientific community of RUB.

Depending on your research field, project and faculty you can have your doctoral project individually supervised or implemented within a structured doctoral programme. Structured doctoral programs are offered by the faculties, doctoral training groups or collaborative research groups at RUB.

With starting your doctorate at RUB you will become a member of the university-wide graduate school RUB Research School.