PhD certificate & degree

Just after the defense, the young doctors must complete the administrative procedure of defense with the library and the department of doctoral affairs in order to obtain, at first, a certificate, then the doctor's degree.

Procedure for University of Lille's - from the defense to the certificate of success -

Step 0: The chair of the PhD committee sends the completed and signed defense document and the signed defense report to the Doctoral Affairs Department (DAD) (soutenances@univ-lillefr).

Step 1: The DAD submits the defense report on ADUM.

Step 2: The graduate student writes the definitive dissertation (with N ° Order of thesis given by the library and the name of the PhD committee's chair on the first page).

Step 3: The supervisor completes and signs the correction certificate.

Step 4: The graduate student sends a copy of the correction certificate signed by her/his supervisor to the DAD.

Step 5: The graduate student submits to the library the correction certificate signed by her/his supervisor and the definitive manuscript in PDF format.

Step 6: The library sends the deposit certificate of the definitive manuscript to the DAD and to the graduate PhD (firstname.lastname.etu@univ-lille.fr).

Step 7: Once the DAD has validated 

• the correction certificate signed by the supervisor
• the deposit certificate of the definitive manuscript
• the effective registration in PhD program at University of Lille,

It sends to the graduate PhD (firstname.lastname.etu@univ-lille.fr) a certificate of success. The graduate PhD can then receive her/his diploma a few weeks later either from her/his graduate school or from the service scolarité.