Apply for PhD Program

PhD programs 2018-2019 application dates:

Open: December 19, 2017
Close: July 29, 2018

PhD First Selection Round	May 31- June 1, 2018
The dead-line for the applications submission for the First Selection Round	April 18, 2018
PhD Second Selection Round	September 6-7, 2018
The dead-line for the applications submission for the Second Selection Round	July 29, 2018

We currently have the following programs:

• Mathematics and Mechanics
• Physics
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Life Sciences
• Computational and Data Science and Engineering
• Engineering Systems
• Petroleum Engineering

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The Skoltech MSc and PhD programs provide multidisciplinary educational experience in brand-new facilities with world-class professors with international exchange opportunities with no tuition fee and one goal: to prepare students to impact Russia and the world and foster socio-economic development through scientific discovery and technological innovation.

• Courses and supervision by world-renowned scientists and engineers.
• All educational programs delivered in English. English is our language of instruction and official business.
• Wide range of courses; individual study plan that allows students to obtain modern education with broad interdisciplinary component. Possibility to choose between fundamental and applied profiles within the program.
• Open dynamic international environment bringing together hundreds of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs with serious ambitions. Students and professors from more than 25 countries study and teach at Skoltech.
• Cross-curriculum double-degree programs and network educational programs with leading Russian universities, wide opportunity to attend different courses in this universities inside the curriculum.
• Opportunity to perform a research and learn the best practice in world-leading universities, laboratories, participate in international conferences, variety of academic mobility programs. More than 1/3 of our students perform a research or an educational component in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University, University of Calgary, Harvard Medical School, National University of Singapore and other world-leading universities.
• Integration of research, education and innovation. Culture of supporting student startups.
• “Student package”: significant stipends and free medical insurance.