# Doctorate
**Source**: https://www.chemgeo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/doctorate
**Parent**: https://www.graduateacademy.uni-heidelberg.de/promovieren/fakultaeten_en.html
The doctoral degree consists of a scientific thesis (dissertation) and the following oral examination (disputation). Upon successful completion of both the written and oral components of the doctoral process, the Faculty of Mathematics, Engineering and Natural Sciences usually confers the academic degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.).
## Links
[Promotion
### Admission as a Doctoral Canditate](https://www.chemgeo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/doctorate/admission-as-a-doctoral-candidate)
[Doctorate
### Admission to the final examination procedure](https://www.chemgeo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/doctorate/admission-to-the-final-examination-procedure)
## Quicklinks
- [Doctoral Regulations](https://www.chemgeo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/documents/doctoral-examination-regulations/download)
- [heiDOCS](https://doktoranden.uni-heidelberg.de/#!/)
- [Checklist Admission as a Doctoral Student](https://www.chemgeo.uni-heidelberg.de/de/dokumente/checkliste-annahmeverfahren/download)
- [Checklist Admission to the Final Examination Procedure](https://www.chemgeo.uni-heidelberg.de/de/dokumente/checkliste-anmeldung-zum-promotionspruefungsverfahren/download)
## Links
[Further Information
### Doctoral Training in Heidelberg](https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/support-for-early-career-researchers/doctoral-candidates)
[Further training and support offers
### Graduate Academy](https://www.graduateacademy.uni-heidelberg.de/index_en.html)
[Representation of interests
### Doctoral Convention](https://www.doktorandenkonvent.uni-heidelberg.de/index.en.html)
[Career Development
### Career Service](https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/node/2193)
[Deutsch](https://www.chemgeo.uni-heidelberg.de/de/promotion)[Contact](https://www.chemgeo.uni-heidelberg.de/en/doctorate?overlay=contact)