PhD

List of PhD programmes available in English mode of study:

Year of admission 2020:

• Economics
• Management
• Marketing
• Finance, Banking & Insurance
• Accounting & Taxation 

Year of admission 2021:

• Economics
• Management
• Accounting & Taxation 

Tuition fees for international Students (non-residents of Ukraine) for admission 2021 (enrollment in September 2021):

Full-time: 2700 US dollars per year 

Part-time \ distance study: 2000 US dollars per year

Term of study – 4 years. 

Before applying, please consider the following issues: 

Regulations

PhD Programmes and Tuition Fees

Components of a PhD Programme

STEP 1 Complete the application form, consent to personal data collection and processing, Research Proposal, and send them to our email along with scanned copies of your documents about previous education and ID (passport), preferably in pdf format: [email protected]

STEP 2  Get an invitation to a preliminary online interview, have an online interview with your potential scientific supervisor or a representative from the PhD Department

STEP 3 Get your  documents  ready. Department of International Education ([email protected]) accepts the documents and may consult you on this issue (legalisation procedure is done in your country)

STEP 4 Get an invitation and come to Ukraine

STEP 5 Take entrance exams (English (certificates TOEFL, CELA, IELTS B2 and higher are accepted), Interview in your field of study)

Enrol and start studying

NB! The term of study is four years. In case of successful completion of a study plan, PhD thesis preparation, publications of scientific conference theses and scientific articles in the correspondingly indexed scientific journals, a PhD student has the right to defend his PhD thesis and even graduate ahead of schedule (usually this may happen after 3 years of study, thus saving tuition fees for one year).  

General Competences Courses:

1. Methodology & Methods of Scientific Research
2. Research Project Management
3. Research Integrity
4. Ukrainian Studies & Intercultural Communications
5. Academic English 
6. Ukrainian as a Foreign Language
7. Philosophy of Science
8. Innovative Teaching Methods

Professional courses:

1. Econometrics And Business Analytics
2. Current Trends in Taxation Management
3. Latest Trends in Financial Economics
4. Recent Research Trends in Management
5. Global Trends in Marketing

Webpage: https://library.sumdu.edu.ua/en/

All students enrolled for studying at Sumy State University are provided with access to Library resources remotely on request at [email protected]. 

• Guidance on users registration, placement of materials and search in the eSSUIR Repository
• Guidance on SCOPUS Create Account Remote access registration

Additional services, e.g. thematic resources selection, editing references, checking for plagiarism, consulting in using resources, research data management, academic writing, are available on request at [email protected]

Sumy State University Library System includes:

• Electronic Catalog consists of more than 650 thousand bibliographic references, 85 thousand full-text documents available for viewing or downloading, and 300 journals. Authorization by the Library card ID – issued on request. 

• Institutional Repository is an open-access Sumy State University archive of more than 80 thousand documents (articles, conference theses, Ph.D., Bachelor and Master theses, books, scientific reports, etc.).
• Library Website is a search platform for university educational and scientific resources, subscribed databases, and software, LibGuides for researchers.

Sumy State University Library provides access to:

• University Resources (Learning Platforms, Electronic Catalog, Institutional Repository, Journals and Conference Papers).
• more than 300 Subject Databases in Human and Social Sciences, Politics and Law, Mathematics and Data Science, Natural Sciences, Medicine, Engineering and technology, geography and History.
• International Databases subscribed and in test access (Scopus, Web of Science, SciVal, ScienceDirect, Springer Link, EBSCOhost, Access Medicine, Wiley, BMJ Best Practice, Wolters Kluwer Health / Ovid, Statista, Coursera).
• Reference Generators and Managers (Grafiati, BibMe, Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero, etc.), сервісів з написання текстів англійською мовою (Grammarly).
• Plagiarism Detection Systems (StrikePlagiarism, Unicheck).
• Software and IT resources.
• LibGuides in Academic Writing and Integrity, Data Sources and Software, Researcher Profiles and Journal Selection.