Research doctorate (PhD)
Promotion im Studiengang Architektur (Dr.-Ing.)
Doctorate in Architecture (Dr.-Ing.)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) · KIT-Fakultät für Architektur · Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Official award
- Dr.-Ing. im Studiengang ArchitekturDr.-Ing.
- Pathway
- ResearchStated for Germany
- Format
- On campusDie Annahme als Doktorand*in erfolgt zunächst für vier Jahre.
- Tuition
- Not published
About this program
Individually supervised research doctorate at the KIT Faculty of Architecture, with acceptance as a doctoral candidate first granted for four years.
- Subject
- Architecture
- Department
- KIT-Fakultät für Architektur
- Awarding body
- KIT
Qualification and professional pathway
Pathway is classified only from a statement on an official page. A degree title such as B.Arch, BA, BSc, M.Arch or MSc does not decide it, and no degree by itself grants permission to practise as an architect.
- Degree level
- Research doctorate (PhD)A research doctorate focused on architecture (PhD, Dr.-Ing. and equivalents).
- Pathway
- Research degreeA research degree. It does not qualify anyone to practise as an architect.
- Why we classify it this way
- The faculty awards the research doctorate Dr.-Ing. through a doctoral regulation and examination procedure.“Die Fakultät für Architektur verleiht den akademischen Grad Dr.-Ing. im Studiengang Architektur und Dr. phil. im Studiengang Kunstgeschichte.”Source
- Previous architecture degree required
- Not published
- Applicants without an architecture degree
- Not published
Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional recognition, degree-awarding authority, program accreditation, professional validation and eligibility toward registration are different things; none of them is full professional registration.
No accreditation, validation or registration-pathway record for this program has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- On campusTaught at the listed campus.
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- Die Annahme als Doktorand*in erfolgt zunächst für vier Jahre.
- Thesis or dissertation
- Dissertation submitted in three copies with application; oral examination follows the reviews.
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- KIT Karlsruhe (Faculty of Architecture)Englerstraße 7, 76131 Karlsruhe
Teaching language
- Taught in
- German
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
- Differences by campus or pathway
- Language of the dissertation not checked.
Admissions
- Portfolio
- Not publishedPublished deadline (no year printed on the page): Anträge ... jeweils bis zum 1. April und 1. Oktober einzureichen.
- Interview
- Not published
Research degree details
- Department
- KIT-Fakultät für Architektur
- Finding a supervisor
- Candidate agrees a Promotionsvereinbarung with the supervisor and registers with KHYS before the formal application for acceptance.
- Deadlines
- Applications by 1 April and 1 October for the committee, which meets three times a year.
Fees and costs
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The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether studio, materials, printing, software, equipment and field-trip costs are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, full-time or part-time options, intakes, portfolio requirement, whether a previous architecture degree is required, accreditation or validation record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 19 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 19 October 2026)