PhD studies For English Speakers

To apply for PhD studies, it requires serious preparations. Most of our PhD students begin their procedures in the final year of their Master's degree, where they start taking various steps required in order to build their application file. According to these steps and preparations, our students are chosen by the doctoral school.

Here is what you need to prepare in advance:

You have to find a thesis Director who can advise and guide you throughout your PHD research years.
As well as a Laboratory which will give you the means to conduct your work.
Furthermore, you need to find a good research topic that should be confirmed by your thesis director and the laboratory of your choice.

Jean Monnet’s University is attached to 6 different Doctoral Schools:

Experiences of some students: Scientifique Culture

Enrollment Conditions (From the 1^st of July till the 30th of Novembre) :

To have a Masters diploma recognized in France (unless reasoned exemption).
To have a thesis subject.
To have found a Thesis Director
To be a part of a recognized research Laboratory: Les structures de Recherche

APPLICATION, (RE-)ENROLMENT in PhD

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To register for the ED science, engineering and health - ED 488 SIS contact Fadoua Lafdil fadoua.lafdil @ univ-st-etienne.fr
For ED 492 Law, ED 483 for social sciences, ED 484 for languages, letters and arts, ED 485 for educational sciences, psychology, information and communication and ED 486 Economic Science and Business Administration contact Nadine Bahajjaj n.bahajjaj @ univ-st-etienne.fr

All PhD researchers must enrol as student at the start of their doctoral study, as well as re-enrol online every following academic year until graduation, after approval of an annual CSI report.

Submission of a pedagogical application is requested, accompanied by the necessary documents, on our website ADUM.
Online validation of the application is request by the thesis director.
Online validation of the application is request by the laboratory’s director.
Online validation of the application is request by the director of the doctoral school.
Online validation of the application is request by the operator university.
Once the ADUM application is validated , we will send you an administrative registration file that have to fill. Afterwards, you have to pay the CVEC (92 euros) to the Crous and also the national university fees (380 euros for normal inscription, or 253 euros for double major students) intended for the accounting department.
For foreign students: on Campus France website you will find details of the different stages preceding thesis enrollment.

After fulfilling all these criteria, it is important for the candidate to know that at a national level, doctoral training is supervised in France by « The decree Order of the 25th of May 2016.pdf». On the Lyon-Saint-Etienne site, the Doctorate Charter of the University of Jean Monnet Saint Etienne University defines the reciprocal commitments which bind the Doctorate to his Thesis Director.

Documents you need for your enrollment:

English Version of the PHD Charte

Visualiser le fichier «requested documents for enrollment 2024-2025.pdf» en ligne

Financial Aid

Several examples exists to finance your thesis during your studies:

The doctoral contract, governed by decree 2016-1173 of August 29, 2016,
Aid from local authorities, especially the regional aids, etc.
CIFRE contract: Industrial agreement for training during your research period.
Other forms of contracts: doctoral students could be hired by a public higher education establishment, a research institute or a private foundation under a one-year renewable contract. This is the case when the doctoral student is recruited for a research project funded for example by the local authority or by the ANR (National Agency for Research), or other companies (excluding CIFRE).
Scholarships such as: la Fondation de France, L’Oréal, Axa, Bourse Effiel etc.....

For more information, please contact the doctoral school to which you are attached .

Doctoral Thesis Oral Defense: Starting from the final dissertation submission, Advisor approval, Committee, etc., till the Diploma.

All students must inform our administration team about their oral defense date in a delay of two months minimum before the actual date. The PhD student must also send our team the nomination forms for his/her advisors and committee, all the documents must be signed by his/her thesis director.

Once the advisors are approved by the thesis director and the director of the PhD school, the reporters are contacted by mail to notify them that they need to return their reports no later than 3 weeks before the oral defense.

In due course, after receiving the reports “if they are favorable”, the committee chosen are officially summoned by the President of Jean Monnet’s University.

Meanwhile, the PhD student must remember to return to our administration team the various documents and forms of the dissemination and archiving of his thesis, these documents will be transmitted by e-mail once we receive the advisors’ approval. Moreover, the PhD student has to send us his thesis in a PDF format (after testing it on http://facile.cines.fr/).

Subsequently, the thesis director must send our administrative team the opinion of the committee and all the other documents requested for the defense of his doctoral student. Without these documents completed and signed, neither the certificate of success nor the Diploma can be edited.

For more information on the modalities of our Defenses :

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