Admissions 2025Z

Admissions 2025/2026 Winter semester

We would like to inform you that on July 1, 2025 (00:00) admission for the winter semester of the academic year 2024/2025 to the Doctoral School of Warsaw University of Technology will begin. Candidates will be registered via the IRK system www.irk.pw.edu.pl. The IRK system will be open until August 5, 2025 (23:59).

Detailed admission schedule below.

Admission to the PW Doctoral School takes place in the form of a competition organized twice during the academic year, within the framework of individual scientific disciplines. A candidate for the Doctoral School may be a person who:

  • has a Master's degree, Master of Science in Engineering or equivalent, obtained in Poland or another country,    
  • obtained a grade of at least good on the graduation diploma,
  • is not a PhD student at another doctoral school.

Registration of candidates for the Doctoral School takes place electronically using the IRK system. Before starting the recruitment process, the candidate should contact the potential supervisor of their choice in order to obtain their consent and determine the initial topic of the doctoral dissertation.

The condition for admission is to provide a complete set of required documents, obtain at least 60% of points in the competition procedure and be within the admission limit set for a given scientific discipline.

NOTE! Candidates holding a diploma of graduation from a country outside of the EU, along with the recruitment documents, submit a certified translation of the diploma into Polish language (if it is in a language other than English) and a diploma supplement, as well as a personalized certificate issued by the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), confirming whether the diploma is equivalent to a Polish diploma, entitles the candidate to continue their education in Poland and if it requires nostrification (formal recognition) or not.

If the Candidate is waiting for a certificate from NAWA at the time of registration, they should include in the IRK system the so-called recognition statement generated from the NAWA KWALIFIKATOR system and confirmation of submitting documents in the NAWA SYRENA system regarding the issuing of individual information about the diploma, confirming the eligibility of applying for admission to the School.

 

If such a candidate is admitted to the School, a personalized certificate from NAWA should be provided no later than within 3 months of starting education at the School.

 
IRK – registration guidelines

IRK – registration guidelines

   
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2025/2026 Winter semester admissions schedule

STAGE                                                           DATE
Registration and submitting documents in the IRK electronic system 01.07.2025-05.08.2025
Interviews 26.08-08.09.2025
Publication of the ranking list 12.09.2025

Submitting additional documents in the IRK electronic system:

- a document confirming a title which entitles to apply for the School (diploma), and in case of lack of one, a certificate of passing the diploma exam issued by the Faculty/Institute (if the mentioned documents were not uploaded to the system yet)

- declaration on the selection of one doctoral school/scientific discipline

 

15.09-21.09.2025

Publication of the list of the admitted 25.09.2025
First day of the Winter semester 01.10.2025

The database of supervisors and research topics

Note! Candidates are obliged to submit the description of a prospective research topic and the acceptance of the supervisor. Therefore, find a potential supervisor before you apply, in order to establish details of the future cooperation. The list of research topics will no longer be available in the IRK system.

A potential supervisor can be found through the database of supervisors. In the database you can find a list of supervisors, the maximum number of students they can cooperate with and their research interests. If you wish to find more information on a particular supervisor, go to the WUT Base of Knowledge -the People  section.

The potential supervisor can be also found by choosing a research area  or a scientific discipline. Useful tabs can be found in the upper left corner of the database.

In the Search field you may insert a key word or a surname, and thus find a research area of your interest or a supervisor representing a particular scientific discipline.

After the list of people accepted to the Doctoral School is published, PhD Students Office will inform the people on the list about the next steps, including the date of submitting the original admission documents.

The recruitment fee for applying for the acceptance to WUT Doctoral School for the academic year 2025/2026 is 250 PLN.