The thesis has to be submitted to the Dean’s Office to the PhD assistant.
The PhD student shall submit the doctoral thesis within a period of three academic years after passing the comprehensive examination.
Documents needed for submission:
- Thesis: 4 black hard-bound copies
- Thesis booklets: 7 copies with a co-author waiver form attached
- The list of publications and all publications serving as the basis of the thesis (electronically)
- Written statement of the Doctoral School about the plagiarism check
- Copy of the English language exam certificate
- Copy of the master degree
Thesis
The thesis has to be submitted in A4 sized 4 black hard-bound copies with the title in golden letters (PhD thesis, Author, University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Computer Science, Szeged, Year). The length of the thesis should be between 80 and 120 pages (including summaries, but excluding references).
A 3-5-page long summary in English should be included at the end of the thesis. The language of the thesis has to be in English in case of foreign students. To prepare the thesis it is recommended to use the template of the Doctoral School of Computer Science available at: https://github.com/jelasity/szte-cs-phdthesis-template
Before submitting the dissertation, the candidate has to send it in pdf to the Doctoral School of Computer Science, for plagiarism check. The Doctoral School will issue a written statement on the result. After notification, the statement can be collected from the education program coordinator Beatrix Horváth (Room 51, Institute of Informatics). After that but before submitting the dissertation to the Dean’s Office, every candidate has to upload the entire thesis on SZTE Doktori Repozitórium (Doctoral Repository of SZTE): http://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/information.html
A document proving the uploading has to be sent to the PhD assistant concerned. The uploaded material will become visible within 2-3 days in the repository, not immediately. You can enquire about the repository on the following link: http://www.ek.szte.hu/?lang=en
In the repository at the candidate’s data the MTMT author identification number must be indicated. As division the candidate has to indicate "Doctoral School of Computer Science", as discipline either "Engineering > Information technology" or "Natural Sciences > Mathematics and Computer Science", according to the research topic.
Thesis booklet
An A5-sized 10-15-page summary of the thesis in English (7 copies) has to be submitted together with thesis. The language of the thesis booklet and the dissertation has to be the same, in case of foreign students both only in English.
The paper-bound cover of the thesis booklet has to include the title, theses of the PhD thesis, the author, the name and title of the supervisor, Doctoral School of Computer Science, University of Szeged, Department/Institute, year.
The thesis booklet has to contain a summary in Hungarian, at most 2000 characters long.
In the thesis booklets a co-author waiver form has to be attached to the end and be signed by the co-authors. The co-author waiver form has to be prepared only for publications serving as the basis of the thesis. The co-author waiver form (or co-author declaration form) can be found in Appendix 2 of the Operational Regulations of the Doctoral School of Computer Science of the University of Szeged (https://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/phd/en/documents). The completed and signed declaration and the email addresses of the co-authors must be sent to dscs@inf.u-szeged.hu. The Doctoral School sends the statement to the co-authors, and then (if no objection is received within the one-week deadline) the head of school signs it. After notification, the declaration can be collected from the education program coordinator Beatrix Horváth (Room 51, Institute of Informatics).
The thesis booklet has to be uploaded together with the thesis on SZTE Doktori Repozitórium (Doctoral Repository of SZTE). The uploaded version also has to contain the scanned co-author form.
Publications
The list of publications and all publications serving as the basis of the thesis have to be submitted electronically to the PhD assistant concerned. Thus, the publication list must contain the publications not used in the thesis, too. For each entry in the publication list the candidate has to indicate the point-value along with justification. Concerning conference publications, it is recommended to indicate the conference ranking when available, especially the CORE ranking (A*, A, B, C). Concerning journal papers it is recommended to indicate the scimago ranking (D1, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) when available. The total point-value of the publications also has to be given.
The MTMT identification number has to be indicated on the list of publications (it is recommended to generate the publication list in MTMT and supplement it by the information above.
English language requirement
The candidate has to prove that they satisfied the English language requirement for obtaining the PhD degree by submitting copy of the language exam certificate or equivalent.
Comprehensive exam
The comprehensive exam is a prerequisite of obtaining the PhD degree. The minutes of the comprehensive exams are available at the Dean’s Office. No additional steps are required.