You may apply for admission by applying for a PhD fellowship or apply with external funding.
Admission requirements
To apply for the PhD programme in Health and Medicine you need:
- a five-year master’s degree or equivalent education from a relevant field
- a strong academic background from previous studies
- documentation of full funding for the doctoral study
- a supervisor at the faculty
- a complete project description that shows your role in the project
How to apply
You may apply for admission in two ways:
1. Apply for a PhD fellowship
Many PhD candidates finance their education through a fellowship. You can apply for admission by applying for a fellowship from our vacant positions.
The announcements includes all the requirements for your application. Normally, it consists of a preliminary project proposal and several qualification requirements. If you are offered a PhD fellowship at our faculty this also means that you will be admitted to the PhD programme in Health and Medicine.
If you are admitted through a PhD fellowship you must submit your final project plan for approval by the doctoral committee within 3 months.
2. Apply with external funding
You can also apply for admission to a PhD programme with external funding. Financial matters must be clarified between the funding part and UiS before admission.
In the PhD programme in Health and Medicine we require documentation of full funding of the PhD study, including stay abroad and operating costs. We do not allow so-called self-funding.
For applicants who are not fully funded through scholarship schemes, documentation is required to show that at least 50% of your working hours will be spent on your PhD education.
Industrial and public sector PhD
Employers may apply for the Public Sector PhD or Industrial PhD scheme for their employees. A public entity or company can apply for financial support through the Research Council, which corresponds to half of the stipend rate for three years. Such projects are a collaboration between three parties: the public entity, UiS, and the candidate. Read more about the Industrial and Public Sector PhD.
Read more about the Public Sector and Industrial PhD scheme.
Application requirements
The application for the PhD programme in Health and Medicine are sent to healthandmedicine@uis.no and must consist of:
- Application form (pdf)
- Diploma and transcripts + your CV
- Documentation of funding
- Project description (see guidelines for the projectplan (pdf))
- Supervisor experience form (word) (with CV up to 3 pages)
- Approvals (i.e. REC-approval if applicable)
You need a supervisor to apply for admission to the Ph.D. program. Use the staff search feature to find a supervisor at The Faculty of Health Sciences
Applications for admission are processed monthly by the faculty’s doctoral committee, which makes a comprehensive assessment of the application. The deadline for submitting cases to the doctoral committee is 10 working days before the meeting date.
Please contact the PhD administration for guidance before applying for admission by email healthandmedicine@uis.no.
Admission requirements
PhD regulation, § 2-1:
For admission to the doctoral education, the applicant should have a five-year master's degree or equivalent education, in accordance with the descriptions in the second cycle of the Norwegian Qualification Framework, which the faculty has approved as a basis for admission. The faculty may, upon a separate assessment, approve other equivalent education as a basis for admission. The faculty itself may, in supplementary regulations, establish additional requirements for admission.
Supplementary regulation, § 2-1:
The applicant must have a strong academic background. The doctoral committee must, after a comprehensive assessment, consider it highly likely that the candidate can complete a PhD program within the standard time frame.