Requirements for admission to the study programme

Doctoral study
Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Aeronautical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering
  • About the study
    • Description of study
    • Requirements for admission to the study programme
    • Requirements for completion of the study
    • Structure and organization of the doctoral study
    • Description of the institutional management of the study
    • Description of the system of advisinh and guiding doctoral students
    • Methods of monitoring quality of the doctoral study
    • Costs of the study programme per doctoral student
  • Structure of the programme
    • Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
    • Industrial Engineering and Management
    • Materials Engineering
    • Mechatronics and Robotics
    • Metallurgical Engineering
    • Advanced Production Technologies
    • Computational Mechanics
    • Process and Energy Engineering
    • Theory of Structures
    • Scientific Metrology in Mechanical Engineering
    • Aeronautical Engineering
  • Curriculum of study
    • Scoring system
    • Earning ECTS points
    • Requirements for student\'s advancing across the study
    • Requirements for approving the topic of the doctoral study
    • Doctoral thesis evaluation and defence
    • Organizatin of the full-time study and part-time-study
    • Rights and obligations of doctoral students, mentors and study providers
  • Forms and instructions
  • Links and contacts
    • Links
    • Contacts
  • Notice
  • Call for Application
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Requirements for admission to the study programme

For admission to the Doctoral Study Programme in Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Aeronautical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, the applicant must have completed the respective university graduate study programme from technical science area with an average grade earned at the undergraduate and graduate level above 3.50 and a total of 300 ECTS credits, that is, the equivalent grade obtained through other systems of evaluation.

Admission may be granted also to graduates who have obtained a degree in other scientific fields.

The Postgraduate Studies Committee may prescribe to these applicants the number of differential exams to be taken in order to acquire the basic knowledge necessary for attending and completing the study programme. The final decision is made by the respective Faculty Council.


At enrolment in the Doctoral Study Programme, the Committee may recognize up to 36 ECTS credits for courses and 24 ECTS credits for Master of Science to the applicant who has been awarded a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Aeronautical Engineering or Metallurgy.

The applicant has to know English. The way of testing the knowledge of English is laid down in a competition notice.

The final decision on holding the Doctoral Study Programme for which a competition has been published is made by the respective Faculties Council on proposal of the Postgraduate Studies Committee, if a sufficient number of applicants meeting the requirements for admission has been reached.

Fakultet strojarstva i brodogradnje, Ivana Lucica 5, 10002 Zagreb, p.p. 102, Croatia
Metalurski fakultet, Aleja narodnih heroja 3, 44103 Sisak, Croatia