Documents and Summary
The summary gives you an overview of your declarations and entries. In addition, the required documents to be submitted for the registration are listed for you.
Please check all of your entries and uploaded documents very carefully before you submit your online registration. After you have sent the registration you will be directed to the payment page; subsequent changes are no longer possible.
If you need to make corrections before payment, you may do so directly for each page of the form via the navigation function. For changes, please click all subsequent pages with the "Continue" button until you reach the "Summary" page. Please note that your entries (university details, CV, etc.) cannot be changed in any way after you submit the registration.
Once you have registered you cannot change personal details such as name, gender, nationality or email address yourself.
You should therefore check your entries carefully when creating your user account. If – despite this – you overlook a mistake, we will correct it when we check your submitted application.
Registration documents
Confirmation of doctoral thesis supervision
Your professor, fulfilling the requirements to supervise doctoral theses at ETH, has to confirm his/her supervision of your doctoral thesis by signing the respective Downloadconfirmation form (PDF, 517 KB)vertical_align_bottom. Upload this filled-in and signed form in the registration for the doctorate (eApply).
Curriculum vitae (max. 5MB)
Please upload an up-to-date, chronological curriculum vitae in table form, leaving nothing out. Begin with your upper secondary school graduation and include all details right up to the time you submit your registration for the doctorate, with exact entries regarding your education (schools attended, studies etc.) and any work experience pertaining to your future plans. Leave no time gaps: also list periods when you did not attend school, study or work (e.g. longer periods of travel or time off).
Copy of passport (max. 5MB)
Please upload a scan of your passport (only the pages with photo, name, date of birth and expiry date), which must be valid for at least another six months.* EU/EFTA citizens may also upload a copy of a valid ID card (front and reverse sides) if no passport is available.
The data will only be used for administrative purposes and is not part of the evaluation.
If you have not a valid passort available at the time of your registration you may submit a copy of your expired one.
Declaration of consent
You must declare your consent for your data to be used and communicated in the context of the registration for the Doctorate at ETH Zurich which you have submitted.
For this purpose, please upload the completed and signed Downloadconsent form (PDF, 134 KB)vertical_align_bottom.
We reserve the right to check all of the details submitted in the context of your registration. If you fail to provide information, or provide false or misleading information or information provided by third parties, we may at our own discretion declare your registration invalid. This can result in immediate rejection or to the revoking of admission or enrolment.
University documents
Transcript of records/Academic record (max. 5MB)
Please upload online verifiable documents of your final Bachelor’s and Master’s transcripts in English, German, French or Italian.
If the universities of origin do not offer these documents in this form, please ask them to send them directly to and only confirm here that you have completed the order.
If the documents are not issued in German, French, Italian or English, an officially certified translation in English must be attached.
Graduates of Master programmes from ETH and other Swiss universities only have to upload a copy / scan of the original transcripts of the Bachelor and Master in English, German, French or Italian.
Registration for the doctorate can only take place once the Master's transcript/grade report is complete and all the required credit points have been verified and all grades are visible. The final grade for the Master's thesis must also be shown. It must be possible to calculate a final cumulative grade point average (CGPA) if this is not already shown in the document.
Transcript of records/Academic record in the original / the official language of the country (max. 5MB)
Please upload a copy of the official transcript in the official national language (i.e. Chinese, Greek) if not English, German, French or Italian.
Degree certificate (German/English/French/Italian) (max. 5MB)
Please upload a scan of your degree certificate in English, German, French or Italian here.
If the university does not issue a version in English, German, Italian or French, please upload a translation in English (preferred) or German.
Degree certificate in the original language / official national language (max. 5MB)
If your degree certificate was not issued in English, German, French or Italian, please upload a scan of it in the official national language (e.g. Chinese, Greek, Russian etc.).
Confirmation of graduation Master
If the Master's degree/diploma certificate is not yet available at the time of registration, it can be replaced by a letter from the issuing university confirming that you have fulfilled all requirements to complete the Master's degree program.
Diploma Supplement (en, de, fr, it) (max. 5MB)
The external pageDiploma Supplementcall_made describes the knowledge, skills and competences, which graduates achieve through their studies. This document is usually issued together with the diploma certificate by all universities in countries which ratified the Bologna Declaration. If available from the issuing universities, upload the Diploma Supplements resp. HEAR Reports (usually issued by universities in GB) in the registration for the doctorate.
Check your details
Below all the documents, you will again see all the information you previously provided. Check them again carefully.
If all details are correct, you can proceed to the next step by clicking on the button "Submit and pay fee".
Please note that once the registration has been submitted, the information can no longer be changed.
Subsequent requests for documents
It may be necessary to submit certain documents after you have registered. In this case, you will receive a message and on the “Summary” page you will find a red note next to the relevant line. Upload the new document there or replace it.
Column with box “requested”
The “requested” box only appears for some rows.
If you do not yet have the required document, you must request it from your university. By ticking the box, you confirm that you have requested the missing final document.