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Education  --  Ph.D Programmes
Doctoral School of Mathematics and Computer Science
Informatikai és Matematikai doktorandusz Konferencia


Degree: Doctoral Programmes in Mathemathics and Computer Science, PhD

Duration of the course: 6 semesters

Language of tuition: English

Description of the programme: Today the Bolyai Institute consists of six departments: Algebra and Number Theory, Analysis, Applied and Numerical Mathematics, Geometry, Set Theory and Mathematical Logic and Stochastics. The Institute has 50 academic staff members with a wide range of research interests.

The Library of Bolyai Institute offers more than 250 current mathematical journals, almost 20 thousand books and more than 20 thousand volumes of journals to professors, researchers and students.

The doctoral education in the Bolyai Institute started in 1993. Between 2002 and 2008, the School consisted of two educational programmes: mathematics and informatics. The School reached its present form in 2009.

The duration of each PhD training course is minimum 3 years, the average duration is 4-5 years. Students have to choose at least 8 courses of which at least 3 are general or basic courses. The Bolyai Institute offers 5 general courses (Algebra, Theory of Measure and Integral, Topology, Discrete Mathematics, Probability Theory), 27 basic courses and several dozen specialised courses. Two basic courses and 11 specialised courses are devoted to the Didactics of Mathematics. The lectures are given mostly by members of the Bolyai Institute or, occasionally, by invited experts.

Educational programmes: Algebra; Analysis; Dynamical Systems; Geometry, Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science, Stochastics; Didactics of Mathematics.

Application procedure

  • Application requirements: at least intermediate level (B2) certified by an internationally accredited language examination (TOEFL/IELTS/GRE/Other)
  • Application deadline: 15 May
  • Application fee: 150 EUR
  • Registration fee: 200 EUR
  • Tution fee: max. 5000 EUR/semester
  • Entrance examination fee: 250 EUR


For further information please contact:

Prof. Gábor Czédli DSc
Faculty of Science, Bolyai Institute
Phone: +36-62-544-093, fax: +36-62-544-548
czedli@math.u-szeged.hu


Website: www.u-szeged.hu/doctoral