Doctorate actors

The Doctorate School

The Doctorate School of Université Bretagne Loire oversees the university’s 11 interregional doctoral schools that have already awarded over 5,200 PhD degrees. Its missions are:

Establishing common procedures
Promoting the skills and expertise of PhD holders
Creating and implementing coordinated training programmes
Evaluating the available programmes for a continually improved offer
Coordinating international projects and initiatives
Developing a monitoring and management tool
Monitoring graduates’ careers.

The Site Doctoral Centres

The Site Doctoral Centres are located throughout Brittany and the Pays de la Loire region, with centres in Angers, Brest, Le Mans, Lorient-Vannes, Nantes and Rennes. Their missions are:

Providing cross-disciplinary training programmes
Interregional and inter-site coordination
Implementation coordination
Training offer evaluations and evolutions
Providing administrative support to the doctoral schools
Organizing on-site inter-doctoral school events

The doctoral school

The doctoral school is responsible for:

Defining and organizing disciplinary training programmes
Recruiting PhD students
Allocating PhD student funds
Ensuring the quality of training and instruction
Monitoring PhD students
Organizing scientific and intellectual exchanges among PhD students

Accredited institutions

Institutions accredited by the doctoral school host PhD students within their structure and can award the doctoral degree.

Associated institutions

Associated institutions host PhD students within their structure, but cannot award the doctoral degree. PhD students can be attached to an associated institution, but they must also be registered at an accredited institution that will award their doctoral degree.

Research units