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PhD (Doctoral) Degree Programmes
General Information for Doctoral Studies
Doctoral students are required to familiarise themselves with the following university and faculty documents:
University Documents:
- Study and Exam Rules - PhD studies (valid from 23. 9. 2025)
- Scholarship Rules (valid from 10. 9. 2025)
- Rector’s Directive No. 5/2025 – Credit System of Doctoral Study Programmes at CZU (now available only in Czech)
Faculty Specifications:
- Dean´s Regulation No. 11/2025: Specification of Study and Examination Regulations for Doctoral Study Programs at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
- Dean´s Regulation No. 12/2025: Stipend Regulations for Doctoral Students at the Faculty of Tropical AgriScience
All doctoral students are required to create an ORCID identifier. Registration is completed within the course Management of Research.
Additional Documents
Other relevant materials—such as applications, forms, manuals, etc.—can be found below in the “Documents” section.
Other relevant materials—such as applications, forms, manuals, etc.—can be found below in the “Documents” section.
Doctoral Study – Admission Procedure 2027/2028
The detailed admission requirements are specified in Dean’s Regulation No. 5/2026.
Below you will find a practical overview of the most important information and steps for applicants.
Below you will find a practical overview of the most important information and steps for applicants.
Basic Information
Applicants must apply with a selected dissertation topic and be in active contact with their potential supervisor before submitting the application.
Doctoral study programmes
All doctoral study programs are conducted in English.
- Agriculture in Tropics and Subtropics
- 3 years, part-time only
- Tuition fee: CZK 80,000/year
- Sustainable Rural Development
- 4 years, full-time and part-time
- Tuition fee: CZK 8,000/year
- Tropical Agrobiology and Bioresource Management
- 4 years, full-time and part-time
- Tuition fee: CZK 8,000/year
Tuition is payable before enrolment and is non-refundable except where provided otherwise by law or a final decision. Students enrolled in full-time programmes are entitled to a doctoral study income equal to 1.2 times the minimum wage in the Czech Republic, provided that this is their first doctoral study at a public or state university in the Czech Republic.
Admission Dates for the 2027/2028 Academic Year
Sustainable Rural Development (SRD)
- First admission round
- Application and document submission: 25 January – 2 March 2027
- Online admission interview: 23 March 2027
- Supplementary admission round*
- Application and document submission: 12 July – 11 August 2027
- Online admission interview: 7 September 2027
*The supplementary round may not open if capacity has been filled.
Tropical Agrobiology and Bioresource Management (TABM) and Agriculture in Tropics and Subtropics (ATS)
- First admission round
- Application and document submission: 25 January – 2 March 2027
- Online admission interview: 23 March 2027
- Second admission round
- Application and document submission: 5 April – 11 May 2027
- Online admission interview: 8 June 2027
- Supplementary admission round*
- Application and document submission: 12 July – 11 August 2027
- Online admission interview: 7 September 2027
*The supplementary round may not open if capacity has been filled. Sustainable Rural Development has no regular second round.
How to Apply
Submit the application through is.czu.cz/prihlaska
You need to:
- Enter personal details.
- Select one of the offered dissertation topics.
- Pay the application fee.
- Attach the required documents (all in English).
Required documents:
- Diploma proving completion of the previous degree (if already available).
- Diploma Supplement (graduates) or Transcript of Records (current students).
- CV (maximum 2 pages), covering education, research activities, conferences and publications.
- Motivation letter (maximum 500 words).
- Recommendation letter from a previous educational institution or employer, giving the referee’s name, position, institution and contact email.
- Consent of the prospective supervisor, entered by the supervisor in the UIS Contact Centre at the applicant’s request.
- Research proposal in PDF, A4, font size 11, maximum 4 pages excluding references.
- Introduction, importance of the topic, recent findings and research gap.
- Main objective, research questions and/or hypotheses.
- Methodology: data sources, methods and analyses.
- Expected cooperation with other institutions.
- Ethical aspects, including any permits, consent, confidentiality or environmental effects.
- Timetable and known existing or anticipated funding.
- References (maximum 1 A4 page).
If any of these conditions are not met, the application shall be considered incomplete and excluded from further stages of the admission procedure. Eligible applicants will be notified through UIS at least 15 days before the interview.
Application fee
- CZK 850 (EUR 34 for payments from abroad), non-refundable. Payment by card, bank transfer or at the CZU Library cash desk. Pay separately for each application.
- The payment must contain the following details:
- Account: 500022222/0800
- Account name: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
- Account holder’s address: Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague – Suchdol, Czech Republic, EU
- Bank address: Česká spořitelna a.s., Budějovická 1518/13b, Prague 4-140 00, Czech Republic
- SWIFT (BIC): GIBACZPXXXX
- IBAN: CZ38 0800 0000 0005 0002 2222
- Variable symbol: 5175000127
- Specific symbol: application number
- Transfer office: Prague – Suchdol
If an applicant submits multiple applications, the fee must be paid separately for each application (the specific symbols differ); multiple applications cannot be paid by a single bulk payment. The fee is non-refundable at any stage of the admission procedure. Only complete, paid and submitted applications will be accepted for further processing.
Online admission interview
All interviews take place in English. Applicants give a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation of their research proposal, followed by discussion. They must show a photo identity document and ensure a reliable connection throughout the interview. No alternative interview date is offered.
Results and enrolment
To be eligible for admission, applicants must achieve a minimum of 80 out of 100 points in the admission interview. Applicants will be ranked according to the total number of points achieved. Admission is also subject to the supervisory capacity of academic staff and the financial capacity of the Faculty. A maximum of 10 applicants per study programme and form of study may be admitted.
Decisions are generally communicated via UIS within 15 days. Applicants may request a review within 15 days of delivery. Enrolment takes place in the second half of September 2027 (exact date to be announced). Before enrolment, applicants must pay tuition, present the original or certified copy of their prior qualification, and provide recognition of foreign education where required. Student status begins upon enrolment.
Notice for applicants from Russia and Belarus:
All study programs offered by the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences have been identified as critical from the point of view of possible violations of the sanctioning measures of the European Union authorities - Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014, No. 692/2014, 2022/263, Council Regulation (EC) No. 765 /2006. The cited EU sanctions regulations prohibit EU countries from "directly or indirectly providing technical assistance" to Russia and Belarus. Higher education also falls under this ban. The obligation to comply with prohibitions and restrictions regarding technical assistance and intangible technology transfer applies to all natural and legal persons in the Czech Republic. Accepting and subsequently providing education to citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus would/could violate the imposed sanctions through the provision of technical assistance, and therefore these applicants will not be accepted to study at the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences.
Documents
Doctoral Admission Procedures
1 fileMethodology, Guidelines and Manuals
7 files| Research Proposal (methodology of dissertation) research-proposal-faculty-of-tropical-agrisciences-1-.doc | Size 55.5 kB | Updated on 21.11.2019 | Download file |
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| Instructions for visa application for incoming PhD students instructions-for-visa-application-for-incoming-phd-2019-2020.pdf | Size 781.43 kB | Updated on 30.09.2019 | Download file |
| PhD thesis guidelines 2024 phd-thesis-guidelines-2024-fin.pdf | Size 533.64 kB | Updated on 05.02.2024 | Download file |
| PhD Thesis Cover Temp B5 phd-thesis-cover-temp-b5.pub | Size 133.5 kB | Updated on 05.02.2024 | Download file |
| PhD Thesis Cover Temp A5 phd-thesis-cover-temp-a5.pub | Size 121.5 kB | Updated on 05.02.2024 | Download file |
| PhD Thesis Cover Temp A4 phd-thesis-cover-temp-a4.pub | Size 126 kB | Updated on 05.02.2024 | Download file |
| Opponent assessment of the doctoral thesis opponent-assessment-of-the-doctoral-thesis.docx | Size 19.2 kB | Updated on 14.07.2025 | Download file |
Requests and Forms
10 files| Request Form request-form-2020.doc | Size 58 kB | Updated on 27.02.2020 | Download file |
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| Request for Recognition of Subjects request-for-recognition-of-subjects-2018.doc | Size 64.5 kB | Updated on 24.10.2018 | Download file |
| Application for the Doctoral State Examination prihlaska-szz-application-for-the-state-exam-2020.docx | Size 42.59 kB | Updated on 02.03.2020 | Download file |
| Application for the Dissertation Defense prihlaska-k-obhajobe-dp-application-for-the-dissertation-defense-2020.docx | Size 55.67 kB | Updated on 02.03.2020 | Download file |
| Exam report_DSP exam-report-dsp.docx | Size 37.66 kB | Updated on 27.10.2018 | Download file |
| Confirmation of conference contribution zadost-conference-contribution-confirmation.docx | Size 343.13 kB | Updated on 26.11.2021 | Download file |
| Confirmation of article published article-confirmation-ftz.docx | Size 42.35 kB | Updated on 29.05.2020 | Download file |
| Notification of termination of studies oznameni-o-zanechani-studia-notification-termination-studies.docx | Size 45.43 kB | Updated on 29.05.2020 | Download file |
| Request for recognising Internship abroad internship-abroad-confirmation-ftz.docx | Size 42.21 kB | Updated on 29.05.2020 | Download file |
| DECLARATION OF AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTION_FTZ declaration-of-authors-contribution-ftz.docx | Size 347.47 kB | Updated on 05.02.2024 | Download file |
DSP FTZ Schedule
1 file| Schedule for PhD harmonogram-ar-2025-2026.xlsx | Size 14.87 kB | Updated on 24.10.2025 | Download file |
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