NorskPHD PROGRAMMES
A PhD-program is a government-issued three-year research program. Such education includes the participation of relevant educational courses, writing a research-based dissertation, dissemination and participation in national and international research forums. The program is concluded with the trial lecture and disputation, and gives the candidate the degree of PhD.
Telemark University College was granted the right to award PhDs in process, energy and automation in 2009. In the spring of 2010, TUC has built applications for approval of two additional doctoral programs, one of culture and cultural policy research and one in ecology. In addition, TUC works to prepare a fourth doctoral program in health promotion.
Nearly 60 PhD students are currently studying og otherwise connected to TUC, 17 of them are accepted to our own PhD programme.