a. Internally or externally financed fellowship
If you meet the entrance requirements and would like a PhD fellowship at ASB for 3 or 2½ years, you can apply for one of the advertised fellowships. This option is mainly intended for young or younger applicants with a Master's degree.

In addition, PhD positions might be available based on fellowships supported by externally financed research projects. These are advertised on a regular basis with separate application deadlines.

b. Industrial PhD fellowship
An industrial PhD fellowship is a possibility for you as a potential PhD student if you have contacts to a company in Denmark which has a use for your research project and which is prepared to contribute financially to both your salary and your industrial PhD programme. The company can apply for a subsidy to cover these expenditures. (If you have an interesting project but no company with which to realise it, please contact a department in the relevant area of research. They might be able to help you establish contact to a relevant company).  

Industrial PhD students are enrolled according to the same rules as other PhD students, and must therefore meet the same entrance requirements. However, as an industrial PhD student you are employed by the company which funds your research project.   

You can obtain further information on the industrial PhD initiative on the special website established by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (http://www.erhvervsphd.dk).  

You can also find information about application deadlines here. However, we recommend that you contact Aarhus School of Business if you are in doubt as to whether you meet the formal entrance requirements for enrolment.

c. Free, industrially oriented PhD
If a company wishes to carry out and finance a research project, possibly in combination with a PhD programme planned for and taking place at the company, Aarhus School of Business is ready to assist in the realisation of such a project, even if such project falls outside the scope of the industrial PhD initiative. The advantage is, of course, that such a project is only bound by the applicable Ministerial Order on the PhD Course of Study and on the PhD Degree.

In this case, it is a precondition for the involvement of Aarhus School of Business that Aarhus School of Business can vouch for the scientific quality of the project, that the PhD student lives up to Aarhus School of Business's PhD entrance requirements, that Aarhus School of Business has the necessary supervisory capacity, and that under the agreement made the costs incurred by Aarhus School of Business through its involvement in the project and the assessment/defence of the PhD thesis are covered. 

d. "Privatist" with or without enrolment
If you meet the entrance requirements of the PhD programme, it is possible to be enrolled as a "privatist". However, ASB is reluctant to recommend this option, as experience shows that it is extremely difficult to complete a research project while also being engaged in other employment or work. Furthermore, it is costly for the student, who must pay not only all costs incidental to his or her participation in research courses, academic supervision and assessment, but also all living expenses during the period of enrolment.  

An alternative recommended by ASB is to submit a thesis without being enrolled (or being enrolled for a short period of time immediately prior to submission of the thesis). In this case, the privatist student pays only for the assessment and defence of the thesis (to which must be added any costs of participating in relevant research courses for PhD students to meet the course requirements).   

It should be emphasised that privatists must meet the same requirements as regards the contents of their PhD programme as ordinary PhD students.