Faculty of Sciences

First registration to a PhD program

The web pages of the Registration Office and the corresponding forms being entirely in French, we offer you hereafter a translation of the procedure which you can follow step by step, as well as screenshots from the forms in French with explanations in English. Please make sure you choose the right procedure according to your citizenship.

All students, whether they graduated from ULB or not, must fill in the application for a first registration to a PhD program The Jury analysis form, completed and signed by the President of the Doctoral Commission, must be attached to the application. This document is available at the faculty’s secretariat or directly from the commission’s President.

Beyond December 1st, the application for a first registration must come with the "Etalement" form which allows the candidate to spread the doctoral training over two years.

Re-registration to a PhD program


Each academic year, students must be registered to the PhD program and to the doctoral training.

Re-registrations are submitted to the agreement of the Dean of the Faculty, based on the appreciation of the Support Committee and Doctoral Commission. The completed form must be signed by the thesis supervisor and the President of the Commission.

As long as the doctoral training is not validated, the thesis supervisor and the Support Committee must complete and sign the annual results of the doctoral training.

All those documents have to be sent to the faculty’s secretariat before October 31st (ULB, Faculté des Sciences - CP 260, Boulevard du Triomphe, 1050 Bruxelles), which will check the file and send it to the Registration Office for final validation.

Re-registrations that do not come through the Faculty secretariat are not allowed.