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The national three-year program of PhD-courses and workshops in Economics primary objective is to improve Norwegian PhD programs in economics by offering courses and workshops of high international quality. Each year seven intensive PhD-courses and three research workshops on specific research topics will be offered at the national level with top international researchers as course leaders, and both international and local researchers as participants as well as PhD-students on the workshops.

A secondary objective is to improve cooperation and collaboration among institutions offering PhD programs in economics, and there will be organized seminars on supervision  and a seminar on coordination and collaboration for all institutions offering a PhD-program.

The Norwegian Scientific Council for Economics will be responsible for the selection of courses and workshops among proposals from the relevant research environments in economics, and the council will also organize the seminars on supervision and coordination and collaboration.

2024-2025 Catalog

Doctoral degrees.

The University of Idaho awards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in recognition of high achievement in scholarly and research activity. The degree of Doctor of Education is granted for high scholarly attainment and in recognition of the completion of academic preparation for professional practice. See the "Ph.D. and Ed.D. Procedures" tab for more details. The Doctor of Athletic Training is offered through the College of Education and the Department of Movement Sciences (see the "DAT Procedures" tab for more details).

The major professor and program offering a particular doctoral program indicate the general philosophy of the degree program, the objectives of courses and seminars, the research specialties available, and requirements unique to the department. Admission to the doctoral program is granted only to those who have a recognized potential for completing the degree.

Requirements for Doctoral Degrees

Credit requirements.

For the Ph.D. and Ed.D., a minimum of 78 credits beyond the bachelor's degree is required.; At least 52 credits must be at the 500 level or above and at least 33 of the 78 credits must be in courses other than 600 (Doctoral Research and Dissertation). A maximum of 45 research credits in 600 (Doctoral Research and Dissertation) including 6 credits of 599 (Non-thesis Research) or 500 (Master's Research and Thesis) may be in the 45 research credits used toward the degree. For the D.A.T., a minimum of 66 credits is required and follows a prescribed set of courses set by the program.

Courses numbered below 300 may not be used to fulfill the requirements for a doctoral degree; courses numbered 300-399 may be used only in supporting areas and are not to be used to make up deficiencies. Individual programs may require additional course work. Applicants having a doctoral degree may obtain a second doctoral degree subject to the approval of the Graduate Council. The Graduate Council will establish the requirements for the second degree.

Credit Limitations for Transfer, Correspondence Study, and Non-degree

For the Ph.D. and Ed.D. degrees, a student must complete at least 39 of the 78 required credits at the University of Idaho (U of I) while matriculated in the College of Graduate Studies. Credits can be transferred to U of I with the consent of the student's major professor, the committee (if required by the program), the program's administrator, and the dean of the College of Graduate Studies. Credits can be transferred only if the institution from which the credits are being transferred has a graduate program in the course's discipline. All credits used toward graduate degrees must be from regionally accredited American institutions or from non-US institutions recognized by the appropriate authorities in their respective countries. Transfer credits are subject to all other College of Graduate Studies rules and regulations. Correspondence study courses may be applied to the degree only with the prior written approval of the College of Graduate Studies. Courses used toward an undergraduate degree, professional development courses, and courses on a professional development transcript are not available to be used toward a doctoral degree.

Time Limits

Of the credits submitted to satisfy the requirements for a Ph.D. or Ed.D. degree, a maximum of 30 may be more than eight years old when the degree is conferred, provided the student's committee and program administrator determine that the student has kept current in the subjects concerned. Graduation must occur no later than five years after the date on which the candidate passed their preliminary or general examination. These time limitations can be extended only on recommendation of the committee and approval by the Graduate Council.

Awarding Doctoral Degrees to Members of the Faculty

Regulations are outlined in Section 4920 of the Faculty-Staff Handbook.

Particular Requirements for the Ed.D. Degree

A period of professional practice is required for the Doctor of Education degree; the period involved is determined by the student's supervisory committee. While the Ed.D. is a College of Education degree, you should consult with the departments in the College of Education to learn of specific emphasis requirements.

Procedures for Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education Degrees

Appointment of major professor and committee.

Refer to " Appointment of Major Professor and Committee for All Degree Seeking Graduate Students " in the preceding General Graduate Regulations section. In addition, a doctoral supervisory committee consists of at least four people: the major professor as chair and at least one additional UI faculty member from the program, the balance of the committee may be made up of faculty members from a minor or supporting area, and faculty members from a discipline outside the major. If the committee has a co-chair, the minimum number of committee members is five.

Qualifying Examination

The qualifying examination is a program option and serves to assess the background of the student in both the major and supporting fields and to provide partially the basis for preparation of the student's study program. A particular program may or may not require a master's degree as a prerequisite for the qualifying evaluation. As soon as the program's qualifications are met, a supervisory committee is appointed.

Preparation of Study Plan

Refer to " Preparation and Submission of Study Plan " in the preceding General Graduate Regulations section.

Preliminary Examination for Ph.D. Degree

The preliminary examination should be scheduled only after the student has completed the majority of the courses on their study plan. The student is required to be registered during the semester the preliminary examination is taken. The student's committee certifies to the College of Graduate Studies the results of the preliminary examination and if passed, the student is advanced to candidacy. Graduation must occur no later than five years after the date on which the candidate passed their examination. If the preliminary examination is failed, it may be repeated only once; the repeat examination must be taken within a period of not less than three months or more than one year following the first attempt. If a student fails the preliminary examination a second time, or the program does not allow the student to repeat the examination after the first failure or the student does not retake the examination within one year, the student is automatically moved to unclassified enrollment status and is no longer in the degree program.

General Examination for Ed.D . Degree

When the student approaches the end of their course work, has completed the professional experience requirement, and has outlined the dissertation subject in detail, the supervisory committee approves the holding of the general examination. The student is required to be registered during the semester the general examination is taken. The examination is both written and oral and is intended to assess progress toward degree objectives. The student's committee certifies to the College of Graduate Studies the results of the general examination and if passed, the student is advanced to candidacy. Graduation must occur no later than five years after the date on which the candidate passed their examination. If the general examination is failed, it may be repeated only once; the repeat examination must be taken within a period of not less than three months or more than one year following the first attempt. If a student fails the general examination a second time, or the program does not allow the student to repeat the examination after the first failure or the student does not retake the examination within one year, the student is automatically moved to unclassified status and is no longer in the degree program.

See the General Graduate Regulations section regarding application for advanced degree, registration requirements, final defense and dissertation requirements.

Procedures for Doctor of Athletic Training

The culminating clinical project.

Students enrolled in the Doctor of Athletic Training (D.A.T.) will engage in research projects during the curricular phase of the program. These project(s) will lead to at least two publication ready manuscripts, and all students must meet professional authorship requirements (regardless of order). See the  Department of Movement Sciences and Doctor of Athletic Training webpages for more information.

The Team (Committee)

All D.A.T. project team committees will have at least four committee members: two members of the athletic training faculty (all with graduate faculty status), the student's attending clinician (who is the student's on-site mentor during the student's residency), and an expert in the student's chosen area of clinical research. The athletic training faculty members will always chair the CCP, provide research guidance, and serve as the experts in the development of advanced practice in Athletic Training. A situation may arise in which one or both of the members of the committee that are outside of the AT program faculty may have a degree less than that of which the student is seeking; however, the intent of the third and fourth D.A.T. committee membership is to provide outside validation of the student's progress toward advanced practice and clinical utility of action research studies.

Culminating Clinical Project Hours

These dissertation hours may be used in instances when the CCP has not been successfully completed and the curricular phase of program has been completed.

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New PhD Course: Introduction to Practical Machine Learning

January 19, 2023

Our Senior Researcher, Mohammad Khalil, is teaching a new PhD course on practical machine learning at the Faculty of Psychology. The course is arranged in collaboration with the International Graduate School in Integrated Neuroscience.

Our Senior Researcher, Mohammad Khalil, is teaching a new PhD course on practical machine learning at the Faculty of Psychology. The course is arranged in collaboration with the International Graduate School in Integrated Neuroscience (IGSIN).

Introduction to Practical Machine Learning is a new PhD course that has been developed by our Senior Researcher, Mohammad Khalil . During the course, Khalil will give students an intuitive introduction to machine learning, both in theory and practice. Machine learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer Science, which focuses on how the use of data and algorithms might imitate the way that humans learn.

Khalil will be holding all the course lectures in English, and they will take place at the Faculty of Psychology during the Spring semester of 2023.

The PhD course has two main parts. The first part will cover the topic “Machine learning: What is it?”, describing how machine learning allows the discovery of knowledge from data. Since data is the fuel that drives machine learning, the course will dive into data management, where descriptions of the organization, storage, cleansing, filtration, and preparation of data collected and used in research projects will be explained.

The second part of the course includes a group project where PhD candidates will work together on data sets. This will either be data sets of the candidates’ own choosing (in other words: PhD-related data sets) or open data sets. The candidates will apply machine learning techniques to distill interesting patterns and knowledge. They will have three weeks to work on the project and present their results in class.

R software will be used to manage practical examples of data management and machine learning. R is a programming language and software for statistical computing and graphics, supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. R is used by data miners, bioinformaticians and statisticians for data analysis and developing statistical software, and it is an open source, free software environment. During the course, R software will be approached from a beginner’s mindset, with students being walked through the creation and execution of their first R scripts.

Mohammad Khalil will cover multiple topics within machine learning, including data as a source for future decision-making and supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.

More About the Course

“Introduction to Practical Machine Learning” is one of the neuroscience and statistics courses presented by the International Graduate School in Integrated Neuroscience (IGSIN). IGSIN was founded as a joint initiative of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen.

The primary goal of IGSIN is bringing together people from different countries with different educational backgrounds and different expertise, to provide an interdisciplinary training and networking platform for PhD students in the broad field of neuroscience. The field spans from basic biological, molecular, and genetic neuroscience to cognitive neuroscience, as well as clinical applications related to mental and neurological disorders.

The graduate school is located at the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology at the University of Bergen.

The registration deadline for the course is January 30th: Registration form

The course will have a maximum capacity of 20 students.

Course administrator: Vivian Helen Jacobsen Fosse .

Questions regarding course content: Contact Mohammad Khalil .

Course Dates

February 14th, 09:15 – 14:45, Christies gate 12, room 005 (Faculty of Psychology).

February 16th, 09:15 – 14:45, Christies gate 12, room 002 (Faculty of Psychology).

February 21st, 09:15 – 14:45, Christies gate 12, room 110 (Faculty of Psychology).

February 23rd, 09:15 – 14:45, Christies gate 12, room 555 (Faculty of Psychology).

March 15th, 09:15 – 14:30, Christies gate 12, room 002 (Faculty of Psychology).

‍Visiting Address:

Christiesgate 12, 2nd floor

Postal Address:

University of Bergen PO Box 7807 N-5020 Bergen, Norway

PhD courses in Theory of Science and Ethics

SVT is responsible for training PhD candidates in the Theory of Science and Ethics; an important and mandatory part of all PhD studies at UiB.

Main content

This is required by the PhD regulations at the University of Bergen and is furthermore in correspondence with the national regulations given by the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions.

The course contents include ethics, philosophy, history and sociology of science.

The primary purpose is to strengthen the ability and depth of reflection of the candidates in their research education. Specifically, we aim to:

• develop the candidates' knowledge of the characteristic features, strengths and limitations of their own field of inquiry, and how these can affect their encounters with other academic disciplines and sectors of society,  
• develop the candidates' critical skills and capacity for reflection, including their ability to reflect upon their own academic field and own research from other and external perspectives,  
• and thereby help shape researchers who combine academic strength and authority with academic maturity, and who know how to translate into action their understanding of the value of other perspectives and the limitations of their own field.

The content, scope and practical organization of these course varies from faculty to faculty, and are determined in cooperation with SVT and the individual faculties.

VITHF900: Theory of science and ethics

VITHF900 engages Ph.D. candidates in research ethics and in key areas of theory of science with an emphasis on the humanities and the relationship between research and society.

VITHF905 - Theory of Science and Ethics

VITHF905 engages Ph.D. candidates in research ethics and in key areas of theory of science with an emphasis on the humanities and the relationship between research and society.

VITHF910 - Supervised written paper in theory of science and ethics

VITHF910 is a supplementary course to Theory of Science and Ethics VITHF905.

VITSV900 Philosophy of Social Science and Ethics

VITSV900 provides training in the Philosophy of Social Science and research ethics, and is an obligatory part of the doctoral education at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Theory of Science and Ethics at the Faculty of Psychology

Training in Theory of Science and ethics for PhD students in psychology is integrated into the course "design and conduct of research" at the Faculty of Psychology

MNF990: Theory of Science and Ethics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

MNF990 is a mandatory PhD-level course for research fellows with The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

PhD for Innovation

Interdisciplinary course from systems thinking through creative problem-solving to r&d management.

“PhD for Innovation – Interdisciplinary course from systems thinking through creative problem-solving to R&D management” is a rather new PhD course at the University of Bergen. The course equips PhD candidates with problem solving methods that facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration with a strong focus on research impact. This is achieved by working concretely with challenge-driven innovation related to sustainable development goals (SDGs), in teams consisting of PhD candidates with varied disciplinary backgrounds.

The course directly answers to a series of strategic initiatives and calls at the University of Bergen, such as SDG in higher education and action plan for ph.d.- education. By merging methods from fields such as system dynamics and innovation methods and by working directly with societal actors outside the university, the course represents a novel and effective approach to fostering creative problem solving abilities that goes beyond already existing courses at UiB and in Norway at large.

PhD Supervision

Undergraduate course, course description.

bioCEED news

Preparing phd students for field and classroom teaching.

Photo: Tina Dahl

bioCEED and iEarth are in the planning stage for a new 3-days teaching and learning course at UNIS this spring. This course mainly aims to provide PhD students at UNIS with some basic learning theory and concepts, practical approaches, tools and skills for classroom and field teaching. The course is a part of an ongoing process of rethinking around how to better structure and prepare PhD students for their teaching obligations which for many is a part of their four year PhD programme and how to develop their teaching skills through their time at UNIS. The course will be run by Ivar Nordmo from UiB and taught together with teachers from UNIS.

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• Most applicants hold a bachelor’s degree in Biological Engineering from an accredited institution and demonstrate a strong background in the fundamentals of engineering.
• If your undergraduate degree is not in Biological Engineering, you will be required to complete background courses to remove deficiencies before beginning the graduate program.
• Degree Roadmap
• Depending on your interests, your academic adviser and graduate committee will help you develop a focused plan of study for the Ph.D. Biological Engineering degree.
• Programs normally consist of three years' work beyond the bachelor's degree.
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For questions related to Biological Engineering degrees, please email [email protected] or call 208-885-6182.

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• Idaho National Laboratory Graduate Fellowship Program – Recipients of this competitive fellowship receive full tuition and fees by U of I during their first three years of graduate school. INL covers tuition, fees, and a $60,000 annual salary during the final two years of their doctoral research, to be conducted at INL.
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• DAAD Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE Professional) Programs – RISE Professional offers summer research internships in Germany to Master’s and Ph.D. students at companies and non-university research institutions with strong relations to industry.
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