Transfer to the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences

If you are currently enrolled as a PhD student at another faculty or another university, you can apply for transfer to the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences. You can only transfer, if your new principal supervisor is employed at the Faculty as an associate professor or professor. Read more about the requirements for supervisors.

When filling out the enrolment application form, please account for the status of your current PhD study elements. Please prepare the following documentation and upload it in your application: 

1. Documentation of your current PhD enrolment.

Could be a copy of your enrolment certificate.

2. Documentation on the current status of your evaluations.

Could be an official transcript or similar from your current graduate school. If you have not yet held any evaluations, please upload a document stating this.

Please read more about rules for regular assessment at SUND.

3. Documentation on the current status of your change of research environment.

Could be an official transcript or similar from your current graduate school. If you have not yet had a change of research environment, please upload a document stating this.

Please read more about rules for change of research environment.

4. Documentation of completed courses that you wish are transferred.

Could be course certificates or an official transcript from your current graduate school.

5. Signed verification document from your current principal supervisor stating the reasons for the transfer.

Apply for transfer

  • Complete the standard enrolment application form. Please insert the documentation mentioned above (enrolment certificate, status on evaluations and research environment, course certificates and supervisor verification) in the section “Basic Information".