Submission of your dissertation

Your thesis is submitted electronically via the Campus Portal and in printed form to the Doctoral Office. Once the electronic and printed versions, as well as all documents, have been submitted, the assessment of your thesis begins.

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To submit your thesis:

  • Your Supervision Agreement and Target Agreement with original signatures must be available,
  • you must have successfully completed both TAC meetings and
  • you must have successfully completed the curriculum with a total of 30 ECTS.

You can download all the necessary forms pre-filled from the Campus Portal:

To submit, first fill out the “Einreichung” in the Campus Portal and enter the final title of your thesis, then save!
You can then download all the pre-filled forms from your Campus Portal.

The submission of your dissertation

The following documents must be included in your dissertation (printed and electronic version):

  • Affidavit with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal. First enter the title of your thesis in the Campus Portal under "Submission" and save. You can then download the pre-filled form.
  • Confirmation of congruency of the bound and electronic version (PDF format) of the dissertation with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal. First enter the title of your thesis in the Campus Portal under "Submission" and save. You can then download the pre-filled form.
  • Curriculum vitae
  • List of all publications

  • Fill out the "Einreichung" section in the Campus Portal and enter the final title of your thesis, then save!
  • You can now download all pre-filled forms from your Campus Portal.

Please upload the following documents to the Campus Portal:

  1. Electronic version of the dissertation (PDF format, max. 10 Mb, how to reduce file size), incl. signed affidavit, declaration of conformity, CV and list of publications.
  2. Affidavit with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  3. Confirmation of congrency of the bound and electronic version (PDF format) of the dissertation with signature.Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  4. Application for admission to the Ph.D. examination
  5. Form "Müchner Universitätsgesellschaft". Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  6. Current proof of enrollment (alternatively: certificate of study progress or certificate of exmatriculation)
  7. Statement by your supervisor on the “iThenticate” report (more information under “iThenticate - verification of text matches”)
  8. Confirmation of the supervisor for admission to the defense (it is part of the application package)
  9. Confirmation of co-authors (only required if submitting a cumulative dissertation). Please download the forms from your Campus Portal under "Publications", have them signed and upload them there again.

  1. Application for Admission to the Ph.D. Examination. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  2. Printed version of the dissertation (one copy) DIN A 4 bound (adhesive binding, no ring binding!) including an English summary
  3. The following documents must be included in the dissertation (printed and electronic version):
    1. Affidavit with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
    2. Confirmation of congruency of the bound and electronic version (PDF format) of the dissertation with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
    3. Curriculum vitae with signature.
    4. List of all publications
  4. Doctoral supervision agreement with original signatures (in case it has not yet been sent to the MMRS)
  5. Target agreement with original signatures (in case it has not yet been sent to the MMRS)

Send by post to:
Doctoral Office, Promotionsbüro, Dekanat der Medizinischen Fakultät, Bavariaring 19, 80336 München
or drop it in the mailbox at the Dean's Office. The mailbox is to the right of the entrance at the garden gate. Please divide your documents into several envelopes if one envelope is too bulky for a regular letterbox slot.

You can submit your dissertation during the 6th semester at the earliest and must submit it during the 10th semester at the latest. The deadline is June 9 in the summer semester and December 9 in the winter semester.
Earliest possible submission: after June 9 or December 9 of your 6th semester
Latest possible submission: by June 9 or December 9 of your 10th semester

The submission of your thesis is considered complete and will only be sent to the evaluators once the electronic documents have been submitted via the Campus Portal and the original documents have been received by MMRS. You do not need to submit your dissertation on a USB stick or DVD.

If you have any questions, please refer to our FAQs. If you cannot find answers to your questions there, please contact our colleagues in the Doctoral Office.

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