Automatic admission:

In accordance with SBS rules, holders of the following degrees from the SBS will automatically be admitted to the doctoral programme, providing they have a minimum grade of distinction: MA in Management Engineering, International Master in Management Science, European Microfinance Programme, MCC en Gestion, MBA, and Vietnam Master’s Degree. In this instance, joint registration for the doctorate is possible, providing the application is accompanied by an agreement of supervision by a member of the SBS Faculty, who holds a PhD. The registration form for this type of application can be obtained from Ms Natalie Tricnot, tel:+32(0)2.650.41.74, e-mail: ntricnot@admin.ulb.ac.be.

Admission on the basis of an application form:

In all other cases, the candidate is subject to an admission procedure based on an application form. To be admitted to the doctoral training, the Jury requires a background in management sciences and, at least, a master’s degree with the level of distinction (minimum of 14/20, and no scores below 10/20), or the equivalent.

All admission requests must be sent to the Admissions Office at the address below. A photocopy of the complete dossier should also be sent to Ms Aurélie Rousseaux at ULB CP 145/01, Tel: +32(0)2.650.48.64, e-mail: aurousse@ulb.ac.be

An admission application can be downloaded from http://www.ulb.ac.be/enseignements/admissions/demande/docs/Doct_form.pdf. This application form must be accompanied by a copy of your degree(s) bearing the original stamp of the university that awarded the degree, and a complete list of exam subjects studied in higher education and the grades achieved in these exams, as well as an official certificate of nationality.

Your application must be complete from the moment of its introduction. Please note that, in the event of the form or dossier being incomplete, it will be refused and this without possibility of appeal.

Doctoral theses may be written and presented in French or English.

The supervisor (or at least one of the two co-supervisors) must be a member of the Solvay Business School Faculty and holder of a PhD.

Co-supervision with other Belgian or foreign universities is also possible, providing that a co-supervision contract has been signed beforehand (co-supervision agreement).

When the thesis is near completion, the doctoral student must address a request for aggregation of the subject of his/her thesis and the composition of the thesis Jury to the President of the Solvay Business School, with a copy to the Director of the Doctoral programme and to his/her thesis supervisor (or co-supervisors). This request must be accompanied by a succinct, 1 to 2 paragraph summary of the thesis.

The President will then include this point on the agenda of the next meeting of the SBS Jury, during which the Thesis Jury will be constituted, on the basis of recommendations from the thesis supervisor (or co-supervisors).

A private and a public viva are held, in accordance with the conditions set out in the Faculty rules (the rules currently in force are those dated 9 December 2004).

Prior to the private defence, the doctoral student must present paper copies of his/her thesis for the members of the Jury and for the ULB libraries. The student will be given a password in order to encode the thesis on the Bictel/e interface. The doctoral student must encode the thesis prior to the public defence. The encoded thesis must be identical to the one submitted to members of the Jury prior to the public viva and must contain those modifications demanded during the private viva.

Following the public defence, the Jury Secretary coordinates the production of the thesis report in accordance with the existing SBS template (viva report template).