Submission of your dissertation
Your thesis must be submitted electronically via the Campus Portal. Once all documents have been submitted there, the evaluation of your thesis can commence.
To submit your thesis:
- Your Supervision Agreement and Target Agreement 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.
Detailed information on formatting and structuring a dissertation can be found here.
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 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- Affidavit with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
- Form "Müchner Universitätsgesellschaft". Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
- Current proof of enrollment (alternatively: certificate of study progress or certificate of exmatriculation)
- Statement by your supervisor on the “iThenticate” report (more information under “iThenticate - verification of text matches”)
- Confirmation of the supervisor for admission to the defense (it is part of the application package)
- 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.
- Application for admission to the Ph.D. examination. Please download the form from your Campus Portal
Please send us an email to inform them once you completed your thesis submission! Otherwise, we cannot initiate your thesis evaluation!
- Mandatory: Cover page for dissertations, if the data were collected at the LMU Clinic or at an institute belonging to the Faculty of Medicine (PDF, 1,110 KB)
Please print the form for the title page as a PDF before inserting it into your dissertation so that the “form settings” disappear. - Mandatory: Cover page for dissertations, if the data were collected outside of the LMU hospital or at an institute belonging to the Medical Faculty. (for example, if the data were collegted at an MPI, Helmholtz-Center or at the TUM). (PDF, 773 KB)
Please print the form for the title page as a PDF before inserting it into your dissertation so that the “form settings” disappear. - Optional: Formatting template for monographic dissertations (Ph.D.) (DOCX, 111 KB)
- Optional: Format template for cumulative dissertations (Ph.D.) (DOCX, 114 KB)
- Important: Please note the faculty's criteria for a cumulative dissertation.
Please use our template for your cover page when submitting your dissertation to the doctoral office (= review copies). Leave the names of the reviewers and the date of the oral examination blank.
Before you can submit your dissertation to the university library at the end of your doctorate, we will send you the finalized cover page, which you must include in your dissertation for the university library (statutory copies) without any changes.
Important note: If changes are made to the final cover page sent by us, this may result in your mandatory copies not being approved.
Your submission is complete once you have submitted all documents via the Campus Portal.
Please send us an email as soon as you have submitted all documents via the Campus Portal.
You do not need to submit a printed version of your dissertation at this stage. If a bound copy is required for the assessment process, you will be contacted separately.
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.
More questions?
You have any questions? Just have a look at our FAQs. If you cannot find the answers to your questions there, please contact your program coordinator.
An overview with all related documents for download is available in our Download Center.
Links
- Mandatory coverpage (data aquisition at an institute which is part of the Medical Faculty) (PDF, 1,110 KB)
- Mandatory cover page: external data aquisition (at an institute outside the Medical Faculty) (PDF, 773 KB)
- facultative formating template: monograph (DOCX, 111 KB)
- facultative formating template: cumulative dissertation (DOCX, 114 KB)
- Video tutorial on the registration and progress of your doctorate in the Campus Portal
- The classic structure of a dissertation
- Cumulative dissertation
- Monograph with published data
- Campus Portal