Postgraduate education at the University of Oulu

Postgraduate education at the University of Oulu is carried out in several ways and in several units:

• in institutes, departments, laboratories, and clinics of the faculties

• in research groups

• in doctoral programs, which are coordinated or which the University of Oulu takes part in
   

Toolbox of Research
 

Support for research

• Finding scientific information
• Scientific writing and support for it
• Evaluating research activities
• Research ethics and the law
• Research funding
• Support Services for Research at the University of Oulu

Support for postgraduate studies

• Planning and pursuing postgraduate studies
• Researcher exchange
• Dissertation and the public examination of a doctoral dissertation
• Doctoral degree graduates and working life

Scientific communications

• Scientific writing and publishing channels
• Publishing and evaluation process
• Popularizing science
• Presentation
   

Doctoral programs at the University of Oulu

The task of the doctoral programs is to teach and guide the postgraduate students of the doctoral programs. Doctoral programs either are networking within one discipline, or they are educational organizations which combine several disciplines.

• Graduate schools and doctoral programs at the University of Oulu

Would you like to be a researcher, would you like to be a PhD?

Here are some helping questions and answers:

• The purpose of postgraduate education and doctoral degree
• Becoming a postgraduate student - why and how?
• Why it is worthwhile to do postgraduate studies
• How to arrange financial issues during the postgraduate studies?
• The contents of postgraduate studies
• Enrolment in the university
• To complete a doctoral degree