PhD fee paying - application step by step

Fee-paying APPLICATIONS – doctoral level

Please create your application profile, and choose the desired programme on the apply.pte.hu online surface and upload all the required documents.

The research areas are available for the PhD Business Administration here and for the PhD Regional Development here. You must submit the research proposal based on these areas. As there is a limited number of supervisors available, we cannot guarantee admission based only on the research proposal.

After submitting the application, the online application system automatically issues the invoice for the €100 application fee payment. You can pay it directly in the system with your bank card. If you pay via bank transfer, you need to consider that a bank transfer could take up to 10-14 days until it is visible on our bank account.

Bank account details:

If you pay with a bank transfer, please e-mail to international [at] pte.hu your proof of payment document to speed up the confirmation process of your payment.

It is essential to highlight that the application fee is non-refundable regardless of the outcome of the application.

We do not continuously evaluate the applications, we wait until the application deadline and start the evaluation of all applicants who paid the application fee  at the same time. The document evaluation is based on a point system; please see the details here. You must fulfil all the mentioned criteria and be selected by the Heads of the Doctoral Schools/PhD Programme Managers to participate in the admission interview. If you do not meet one of the requirements, or you are not selected for interview the application must be rejected, your status will be Failed in the online system. The decision shall be without appeal.

An oral interview (online) is scheduled with the selected applicants and carried out by a committee. The qualified applicant receives a guideline e-mail (on the e-mail address provided during the application process) approximately 5-7 days before the date of the admission interview. Shortly after, the applicant gets the actual MS Teams invitation with the link to join the meeting at the given time (be aware of the timezone differences).

The interview takes approximately 20 minutes, and the committee will ask you about your background, future plans and motivation to choose us and your research topic.

The committee might ask you additional questions; no previously set list exists.

The admissions committee proposes, but the decision is made by the Heads of the Doctoral Schools within a maximum of two weeks from the date of the interview, taking into account the applicant's score and the capacity of the training programme applied for. The decision shall be without appeal.

If you successfully pass the document evaluation and the admission interview and upload all the required documents, you will receive an "Acceptable" offer.

If you successfully pass the document evaluation and the admission interview but have some missing documents, you will receive a "Conditionally acceptable" offer. In this case, you will be given a certain amount of time to submit the missing documents. After this is done, you will receive the "Acceptable" offer.

If you cannot pass the admission interview, you will receive a "Failed" status, which means the application is rejected. The decision shall be without appeal.

If you receive an "Acceptable" offer, you must accept this offer in the online application system. As soon as you have done that, the system issues the invoice for the tuition fee payment. You must pay the full tuition fee; in the first semester there is no possibility of paying in instalments. If you pay via bank transfer, you need to consider that a bank transfer could take up to 10-14 days until it is visible on our bank account.

Bank account details:

If you pay with a bank transfer, please e-mail to international [at] pte.hu your proof of payment document to speed up the confirmation process of your payment.

Upon receiving the tuition fee payment, the School's coordinator must issue the Letter of Admission. The scanned version of the letter will be sent to your e-mail address you provided during the application.

Applying for a visa is entirely your responsibility. As all the immigration-related tasks belong to the National Directorate–General for Aliens Policing, we do not affect the process.

We suggest you to consider that obtaining a visa could take up to 8 weeks.

Students are expected to arrive in Pécs by the official semester start (1 September) but no later than the 4th week of September. You will receive information on the tasks to be done; please read it carefully.

Here, you can read about the CODES AND GUIDELINES OF THE DOCTORAL ADMISSION PROCESS