Students will be admitted by the School's Scientific Council on the basis of a competitive, internationally open application procedure that includes the following steps:

Step one 

By 15 January: Online application

(Students with external funding may also apply by 15 May and 15 September: please contact admissions-please remove this text-@mind-and-brain.de)

Step two

Complete applications will be reviewed by the Admissions Committee. The Committee comprises members of the different disciplines represented in our School as parity of mind and brain scientists is integral for the composition of this committee.

The Committee will request several reviews by members of the Faculty for each proposal received.

You will receive an e-mail from the School’s management a day or two after the Committee’s meeting (usually mid-February).

If your application is favorably reviewed both by members of the Faculty and the Admissions Committee ...

Step three

... you will be invited to a personal interview and project presentation in Berlin before the Scientific Council. This meeing usually takes place in late March or early April.

For this meeting applicants should prepare a 10-minute presentation, covering very briefly their most recent academic work and education, and focusing on their research proposal. The presentation will be followed by a discussion.

After careful consideration and discussion, the Scientific Council accepts new students into the doctoral program (usually around ten).

Acceptance into the Berlin School of Mind and Brain presupposes also that by this stage each doctoral project is supported by at least one, preferably two members of our faculty who have agreed to act as supervisors. However, a second (or third) supervisor may be an external scientist. Usually the matching between students, their reseach projects and at least one suitable supervisors will have been completed by the end of the admissions process.

If thus accepted into the School:

Step four

The Scientific Council decides on the distribution of scholarships among the successful candidates (not applicable to students applying with their own funding by the May and September deadlines!).

Step five

The results of the interviews and scholarship distribution will be made known to the applicants no longer than a week after their interviews took place.

Step six