Types of PhD Enrolment
Learn more about the types of enrolment for PhD students: Employed PhD and Industrial PhD.
The IT University of Copenhagen offers a PhD programme that covers a wide range of disciplines, such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Media and Social Sciences, Conceptual Design, and Creative Practice-based Computing. The PhD programme consists of three or four years of enrolment, independent research, and writing a PhD thesis based on your independent research.
There are two different types of enrolment at the IT University of Copenhagen for PhD students:
Employed PhD: This type of enrolment includes PhD students who join a funded research project at ITU and work on a specific topic related to the research project as well as PhD students who work on their own defined PhD project and join a research group with other researchers working in similar fields. All PhD students are employed by ITU for the entire PhD enrolment.
There are different ways to become an employed PhD student at ITU.
Industrial PhD: This type of enrolment is for PhD students who want to combine academic research and business, and who work on a project with a company. The Industrial PhD student is employed by a company and supervised by both a company supervisor and an academic supervisor at ITU.
You can reach us by email at phdsupport@itu.dk, or drop by our office 2D16 for a chat.