- Degree
- Doctorate in Informatics (Dr-Ing or Dr rer nat)
- Course location
- Saarbrücken
- In cooperation with
- • Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII)
• Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security
• Center for Bioinformatics (CBI)
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- All courses are held in English. Candidates may write their dissertation either in English or German.
- Programme duration
- 9 semesters or more
- Beginning
- Winter and summer semester
- Additional information on beginning, duration and mode of study
- Preparatory phase candidates can begin either in October or April at the beginning of each winter or summer semester, respectively.
Candidates admitted without additional course requirements may start at any time.
- Application deadline
- The application deadlines are twice a year at the end of April and October for the following semester (October, April). Current information may always be found on the website: https://www.graduateschool-computerscience.de/ (https://www.graduateschool-computerscience.de/).
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- Yes
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science seeks to provide an ideal environment for pursuing doctoral studies in advanced computer science. We offer a stimulating, top-notch international research environment covering a wide variety of research areas, such as algorithms and data structures, machine learning, computer graphics and vision, database systems, artificial intelligence, logical methods, programming languages, computer architecture, and security, to name but a few of the more prominent areas. The graduate school is home to more than 540 doctoral candidates in all fields of informatics in Saarbrücken.
Computer science established itself early on as a prominent field of research at Saarland University. It is now the core around which the following internationally renowned state-of-the-art research institutes in informatics are gathered:
• Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF)
• Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security
All of these institutes are active partners in the graduate school.
In addition, there is a long-standing collaboration between related research units and departments on campus, such as computational linguistics, cognitive sciences, business information systems, computer science and law, and the Centre for Bioinformatics, opening countless research opportunities.
The Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science incorporates the co-located International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS-TRUST). The same goes for the doctoral fellowship programme in software systems offered by MPI-SWS (https://www.mpi-sws.org/graduate-studies/#our-graduate-program) for those candidates in Saarbrücken. The Graduate School at Saarland University is also one of the possible home institutions for fellows in the cs@max planck (https://www.cis.mpg.de/cs-max-planck/) doctoral programme.