This committee safeguards the quality of the University doctor s degree and decides whether your degree is sufficient to exempt you from having to pass a Qualifying Examination. The latter covers two or three subjects related to the topic of your PhD-thesis subject. The usual duration is 4 years. Living costs including health insurance are estimated at a minimum of NLG 22,000 per year. PhD's Sandwhich fellowships from the Wageningen University are confined to a limited number of candidates from developing countries and Eastern Europe, covering a maximum of 12 months, being the first and the third phase of the sandwich construction.
Applications outnumber the available fellowships.
Priority is given to MSc graduates from Wageningen and to candidates working within projects in which Wageningen University is involved. Thesis A PhD-thesis may be in book form but may also consist of a collection of related articles in refereed journals. The latter form is prefered. The thesis has to be defended in public before a jury. The local supervisor is often invited to be a member of this jury.