Members of the doctoral committee must be habilitated university faculty. The main supervisor must hold a habilitation or be appointed as a professor in the subject selected as the dissertation's primary discipline.

The electronic submission of the dissertation is done via LEARN. All relevant information can be found in the MyLEARN Guide. Once a thesis is available for your review, you will be notified by email. If you are the supervisor of the thesis, you will then conduct a plagiarism check. If the supervisor does not have access to the WU intranet, the second evaluator will assume responsibility for performing the plagiarism check.

Two copies of the dissertation must be submitted by the student to the Doctoral Office – one will be forwarded to the WU Library, and the other to the Austrian National Library. As the evaluator, you may request an additional hard copy; please inform your doctoral candidates if you would like a bound copy. The bound copies must have a glued spine and hard covers.

Evaluation and Grade Entry

Evaluators have a period of four months to assess the dissertation. Once the evaluation is completed, the assessment protocol and written reports must be submitted by the evaluators to the Doctoral Office (doktoratsreferat@wu.ac.at).

Students submit their dissertations via myWU. All submitted dissertations are automatically subjected to a plagiarism check. The plagiarism report is also available in myWU. You can approve the dissertation if it is ready for publication and the plagiarism check raises no concerns, or you can return it to the student for revisions.

Important note: Once you approve the plagiarism check results, neither the title nor the content of the submitted dissertation can be modified!

After approving the plagiarism check results, you have four months to evaluate the dissertation. The assessment protocol and written evaluations must be submitted by the reviewers to the Doctoral Office.

A step-by-step guide can be found here.

If you have any questions about this process, please contact doktoratsreferat@wu.ac.at.

In exceptional cases, it is possible to request an embargo on a dissertation. For more information, please see the guidelines of the academic director.