Register or re-register for a doctoral programme

Enrollment and re-enrollment in the doctoral program are essential steps to formalize your academic path and continue your research at Sorbonne University. This page guides you through the administrative procedures, the required documents, and the deadlines to be met, in order to facilitate your enrollment and allow you to focus fully on your doctoral project.

You must complete an initial registration process once you have been accepted as a PhD candidate, which involves two steps:

1. Creating an account on the ADUM platform, which is used to manage your registration or (or re-registration) online.
2. Once your registration has been confirmed, you will receive an email asking you to pay the registration fees online via a second platform, IAweb, which has two points of entry

• Entry point 1: for PhD students who have never been enrolled at Sorbonne University or UPMC.
• Entry point 2: for PhD students who have already been enrolled at Sorbonne University or UPMC.

You must finalise your administrative registration even if you’re exempt from paying registration fees (e.g. in the case of a joint programme where the fees are paid to the institution abroad, a CROUS grant, or a Campus France exemption grant, etc.).

Each academic year, until you defend your thesis, you must register or re-register in accordance with an annual timetable published on the Sorbonne University website. Doctoral research is carried out within the doctoral school and generally takes the equivalent of three years of full-time research.

In other cases, a doctorate may take up to a maximum of six years. 

Annual extensions may be granted on an exceptional basis by the head of the institution, on the recommendation of the thesis supervisor and after the monitoring committee and the doctoral school director have issued an opinion, upon the reasoned request of the PhD student.

In the specific case of international joint PhD programmes, where the rules that apply to doctoral studies in the countries concerned are incompatible, French institutions are permitted to deviate from the provisions of Title II of this Decree, under the conditions defined by the joint supervision agreement.

The entire process for re-registration is managed online and completed via the ADUM platform.

Re-registration process:

1. Opinion issued by the ISC (Individual Monitoring Committee): an individual monitoring committee must meet before each re-registration.
2. All copies of the supporting documents requested and, where applicable, certain documents specific to the policy of a doctoral school, must be submitted via your ADUM account.
3. Opinion issued by your supervisor.
4. Opinion issued by the director of your research unit.
5. Verification of your file by the administration department.
6. Registration offer from the doctoral school.
7. Payment of your registration fees.
8. Confirmation of registration by the head of the institution.

After the third year of a doctorate, if the defence of the doctoral thesis is scheduled before 31 December of the current academic year, the PhD student does not need to re-register.

If you have been selected for a doctoral contract, your enrollment at Sorbonne University must be fully completed prior to its signature.