Doctoral studies

In 2006, the Collège de France set up a simple procedure enabling doctoral schools to validate their doctoral students' attendance at lectures given by Collège de France professors.

Collège de France courses are given by the institution's professors in the form of lectures, seminars and colloquia, the full list of which for each academic year is available on the Collège de France website (www.college-de-france.fr/enseignements and www.college-de-france.fr/agenda).

Agreements with doctoral schools enable students to validate the courses of their choice from among the courses and seminars organized throughout the year by all the chairs. The courses are different each year and can therefore be taken several years in a row.

The registration procedure is detailed below.

For further information, please contact:

Ms Halima Morchid
Doctoral school correspondent
General Services Department

A monthly newsletter is sent to doctoral school correspondents to keep them abreast of the latest teaching developments at the Collège de France.

Step 1

Students must first check with their doctoral school:

1. an agreement has been signed between the doctoral school and Collège de France;
2. that attendance at the selected course will be validated as a teaching unit.

Doctoral schools wishing to sign an agreement with Collège de France can do so by contacting the corresponding ED. A standard agreement is available, which can be signed by electronic means.

Step 2

The student pre-registers using the following electronic form: https://form.jotform.com/collegedefrance/ecole-doctorale, which generates an attestation of registration and attendance form, a copy of which is sent to the doctoral school manager, the student and Collège de France.

The doctoral school confirms that the student is eligible for the program, by endorsing the attestation/attendance sheet.

Step 3

It is the student's responsibility to ensure that he/she attends all lectures, seminars and symposia, and to have the Collège de France professor sign the attestation/attendance form.

Step 4

At the end of the course, the student submits the attestation/attendance form to his/her doctoral school, which validates it according to its own procedures.

The student is solely responsible for his or her course attendance sheet, and for forwarding it to the doctoral school secretariat for validation as a teaching unit.