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The duties of the Doctoral Programme Committee are (as of August 1, 2024)

1. put forth proposals to the school academic committee on the doctoral programme curriculum, degree requirements and admissions criteria
2. develop the school’s doctoral programme content and joint studies
3. put forth proposals to the school academic committee on the doctoral research fields and the professors in charge of them
4. put forth proposals to the dean regarding the admission of doctoral students
5. appoint the preliminary examiners of doctoral theses and decide on granting permissions for the public examination of the theses
6. appoint persons to serve as opponent(s) in the public examinations
7. evaluate doctoral theses
8. appoint the examiners of licentiate theses
9. evaluate licentiate theses
10. make decisions on doctoral programme development and quality assurance, and on the processing of feedback
11. consider any other matters assigned by the dean or set forth in the degree regulations.

In addition, the doctoral programme committee shall perform the following tasks (unless it has assigned them to the chair):

1. appoint doctoral students’ supervising professors and thesis advisors
2. decide the language of degree of the doctoral student and the topic and language of their doctoral thesis and
3. decide on the date and language of the public examination of the doctoral thesis and appoint the custos for it.

The doctoral programme committee has on 24 January 2025, assigned the chair to decide on the following matters:  

1. appoint doctoral students’ supervising professors and thesis advisors after the commencement of studies but before the start of the preliminary examination;
2. decide the language of degree of the doctoral student and the topic and language of their doctoral thesis after the commencement of studies but before the start of the preliminary examination;

3. decide on the date and language of the public examination of the doctoral thesis and appoint the custos for it if these have not been decided in connection with the appointment of the opponent or if this information is changed.

   In addition the committee assigns the chair to decide on

4. the full-time and part-time status changes. The status is defined in admission.

The term of the Doctoral Programme Committee is three calendar years. The current committee members and the meeting schedules can be found in aalto.fi