- Regulations for Doctoral Studies
- I. General provisions
- II. Doctoral Studies
- II.1. Learners in doctoral studies
- II.2. Supervision
- II.3. Filling a vacant student place
- II.4. Organisation of study
- II.4.1. General principles
- II.4.2. Period of study, suspension of doctoral studies and changes to the period of study of doctoral students matriculated to doctoral programmes opened from the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.4.3. Workload, academic leave and extending the period of study of doctoral students matriculated to doctoral curricula opened before the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.4.4. Individual plan
- II.5. Progress review
- II.5.1. Progress review schedule
- II.5.2. Progress review committee
- II.5.3. Documents required for progress review
- II.5.4. Progress review meeting
- II.5.5. Decisions of the progress review committee
- II.5.5.1. Decisions of the progress review committee regarding learners in doctoral studies in doctoral programmes opened from the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.5.5.2. Decisions of the progress review committee regarding learners in doctoral studies in doctoral curricula opened before the 2022/2023 academic year
- II.5.6. Repeat progress review and appealing a progress review decision
- II.6. Exmatriculation
- III. Applying for Doctoral Degree
- III.1. Completion of the doctoral programme
- III.2. Council awarding doctoral degrees
- III.3. Requirements for doctoral candidate
- III.4. Requirements for doctoral thesis
- III.4.1. General requirements for doctoral thesis
- III.4.2. Doctoral thesis as an integrated collection of research publications
- III.4.3. Doctoral thesis as a monograph
- III.4.4. Requirement for research publications and the introductory chapter
- III.4.5. Requirements for patents, patent applications and applied solutions
- III.4.6. Structure of the doctoral thesis
- III.5. Allowing a doctoral thesis to be defended
- III.6. Publication of the doctoral thesis
- III.7. Defence of the doctoral thesis
- III.8. Applying for doctoral degree and defence of the doctoral thesis under a joint supervision agreement
- III.9. Contesting and overruling the decisions of the council awarding doctoral degrees
- III.10. Preservation of the doctoral thesis
- IV. Implementing provisions
- Study Regulations
- I. General provisions
- II. Courses and modules
- III. Following the curriculum
- IV. Assessment
- V. Completion of studies
- VI. Filling vacant student places and rematriculation
- VII. Additional rights and obligations of students
- VII.1. Notification
- VII.2. Counselling
- VII.3. Making adaptations in studies
- VII.4. Giving feedback
- VII.5. Studying at other higher education institutions in Estonia
- VII.6. Studying at higher education institutions abroad
- VII.7. Academic leave
- VII.8. Extension of studies
- VII.9. Good academic practice
- VII.10. Contesting decisions concerning the organisation of studies
- Annex 1. Studying as a visiting student or external student
- Annex 2. Intensive study of Estonian
- Annex 3. Recognition of prior learning and professional experience
Regulations for Doctoral Studies and Study Regulations
II.3. Registration for courses
II.3. Registration for courses
22. By registering for a course, students express their decision to complete the course and thus, the university assumes the right to evaluate the student’s performance in the course and ask for feedback in the Study Information System about learning and teaching.
23. In a semester, a student can register for courses in the maximum volume of 50 ECTS, excluding the volume of the graduation thesis. Registration for courses in a larger volume will be decided by the programme director.
24. Registration for the courses begins on a date specified in the academic calendar, in May for the courses of the next autumn semester and in December for the courses of the next spring semester, and ends by the beginning of the respective semester unless otherwise specified in the course. Registration of first-semester students for compulsory courses may begin at the beginning of the academic year and last for at least two weeks.
25. The following exceptions are made to the general registration procedure.
25.1. Visiting students or external students register for their selected courses in the Study Information System, at the dean’s office, institute or college within two weeks of the beginning of their studies at the university.
25.2. A student who returns from academic leave or fills a vacant student place after the deadline for registering for courses is registered for the courses at the student’s request at the faculty, institute or college that manages the curriculum within a week after the end of the academic leave or filling the vacant student place.
26. Part-time students must register for courses each semester unless they only need to take the final exam or defend the graduation thesis to complete the curriculum.
27. Students have the right to cancel registration for a course
27.1. within two weeks of the first contact learning session or within a different term specified for the course. In this case, the student has the right to register for another course upon agreement with the teaching staff member in charge of that course, but only within two weeks from the first contact learning session of that course or within the term for cancelling registration specified for the course. The vice dean for academic affairs may, in justified cases, allow cancelling the registration after the standard deadline;
27.2. if the course schedule changes, within two weeks after the change is announced;
27.3. within two weeks after changing curriculum in a course that does not belong to the new curriculum;
27.4. within two weeks after the student has been registered as studying abroad;
27.5. in the same semester in a course that has been recognised as passed through RPL.
28. If the minimum number of participants required for the course to be taught is not met, the programme director has the right to cancel the course within three working days of the due date for registration for the course and organises the notification of the students registered for the course. Within seven days of the announcement of the cancellation decision, students who have registered for the course have the right to register for another course upon agreement with the teaching staff member in charge of that course. If the number of participants in the course falls below the minimum after the beginning of the semester, the course may be cancelled with the consent of all students participating in the course, which is given in a format that can be reproduced in writing.
