Frequently Asked Questions - PhD FAQ

The notices are published in the "Work and study with us" section of the University website and in the Gazzetta Ufficiale - serie Concorsi (Official Journal - Competitions series).

The admission fee for the competition is set at € 30.00 (thirty/00) and must be paid in a single payment using the payment notice attached to the online registration.

All doctoral students (recipients and non-scholarship recipients) are required to pay an annual contribution of €156.00, as established by the "Regulations on student contributions" available at

Generally speaking, the call for applications is published annually in June in the "Work and study with us" section.

The latest call for applications was published on 12 June 2025, with a deadline of 12 July 2025 at 12:00.

Connect to the Student Office online service, click on Menu and follow the "Password recovery" procedure.

YES.
Final-year undergraduates may apply for admission, provided they obtain their degree by 31 October 2025.
If admitted to the PhD programme, they must notify scuola.dottorato@uninsubria.it of the date and grade of their degree by the deadline specified in the call for applications.

Yes, but if you if you have been accepted onto multiple curricula, given that it is not permitted to enroll in multiple curricula within the same course, you must choose for just one.

Yes.
Please bear in mind, however, that admission to the PhD programme entails an exclusive, full-time commitment. For this reason, employees in the public or private sector must inform the University of their employment status at the time of enrolment.
The Academic Board of each PhD programme will assess the compatibility of employment with the successful completion of training, teaching and research activities.

Public employees admitted to a doctoral course benefit, for the normal duration of the course, from the leave provided for by collective bargaining or, if employed under public law, from extraordinary leave for study purposes, compatibly with the needs of the the administration, pursuant to article 2 of law 13 August 1984, n. 476, with or without grants and unless there is an explicit act of renunciation, only if they are enrolled for the first time in a doctoral course, regardless of the disciplinary field.

Once registration for the competition has been completed, via the Student Office online service it will be possible to view and print the registration receipt, which will then be kept by the candidate.

No.
Applications for admission must be submitted exclusively online via the "Student Office online service" by the strict deadline specified in the call for applications.

Some of the required qualifications are mandatory, if they are not uploaded it is not possible to continue completing the application.

For compulsory titles, the minimum number that can be uploaded, as indicated in the section on the side, is 1, whilst for optional titles the minimum number is 0.

"Self-certification" or "self-certification declaration" is a signed declaration on a plain sheet of paper (not a revenue stamp) in which a declaration is made under one's own responsibility.
The templates for self-certifications are available in the document attached to the announcement for each doctoral course.

These are positions put up for competition whose scholarship is linked to a particular research topic, which must be carried out during the Doctorate.

Some courses require the achievement of a minimum threshold in the evaluation of qualifications for moving on to the oral exam.
This information is provided in the individual course sheets.