1st year registration
The doctoral school (ED) is in charge of the recruitment of the phD students. The registration is a two step process: first the pedagogical registration and second the administrative registration.
Pedagogical registration (all students)
To be eligible, the candidates must hold a national master's diploma or another diploma conferring a master's degree, establishing their aptitude for research. They must first identify the thesis project they wish to develop by contacting a research team affiliated to the ED, then, after getting the agreement of the phD supervisor, they send by e-mail to the secretariat of the ED an application file.
The criteria used to authorize or not registration are: - the quality of the candidate's CV, - the training qualities and the feasibility of the research project, - the supervision rate and its quality, - having secured funding for three years corresponding to the salary for a standard phD contract in France. If the file is validated by the ED, the student can then proceed with administrative registration in the first year of the doctorate (see below). Depending on the origin of the funding and the host laboratory, the ED will indicate to the doctoral student their registration establishment (SU or PSL). For students registrating to PSL, the administrative registration will be done at ESPCI (for PSL students from Curie Institute) or at ENS (for PSL students from ENS or collège de France). The administrative procedures will then have to be carried out according to the instructions given by the registration establishment.
Administrative registration at Sorbonne Université
This registration is mainly done online on ADUM. As soon as you are authorized to register, the ED secretariat will send you the detailed procedure by email.
Complementary information are available on the Sorbonne Université website.
The Bureau d'accueil des doctorants (doctoral student reception office) manages the payment of university fees, the finalization of the administrative registration procedure and the edition of registration certificates. It is located on the Cordeliers site.
Bureau d’accueil des doctorants :
Site des cordeliers
15 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine 75006 Paris
The reception office only receives by appointment, courriel.
Administrative registration at ESPCI (doctoral students enrolling at PSL and doing their thesis at the Curie Institute)
This registration is mainly done online on ADUM. As soon as you are authorized to register, the ED secretariat will send you the detailed procedure by email.
If you have any questions, you can contact the PSL representative for the ED, Nathalie Dostatni.
Administrative registration at ENS (doctoral students enrolling at PSL and doing their thesis at ENS or the Collège de France)
This registration is mainly done online on ADUM. As soon as you are authorized to register, the ED secretariat will send you the detailed procedure by email.
If you have any questions, you can contact the PSL representative for the ED, Nathalie Dostatni.