Licentiate degree requirements
For a Licentiate degree, it is required that the doctoral student obtains all the learning outcomes for a licentiate degree. The outcomes are listed on the following page:
The prerequisites for admission to studies leading to a Licentiate of Medical Science are:
- that the applicant satisfies the requirements for general eligibility and such special eligibility as the Faculty Board may have prescribed
- that the applicant possesses the abilities required for satisfactory completion of the programme.
A student may be admitted to postgraduate studies with the aim of obtaining a licentiate degree. The Postgraduate Education Committee is, however, restrictive in allowing this form of admission.
On admittance to the programme in these circumstances, the student must complete and sign the form below to certify that they are aware of the admission and programme terms:
Requirements for obtaining a licentiate degree
A licentiate degree requires the student to have passed all parts of the programme required for this degree under the terms of the current regulations and the established syllabus for the subject. This means that the postgraduate student must have passed all compulsory courses of the PhD programme, and also had a dissertation approved.
New requirements apply to licentiate theses for research students admitted as of 1 January 2020
For a licentiate degree in medical science, the norm is that the student has written at least one research manuscript as well as a short introductory summary. The doctoral student is to be the sole first author of the manuscript. The manuscript(s) are to carry academic weight and be structured in the form of a research article, in publishable condition and contain an indication of the journal in which the manuscript can potentially be published.
The summarising introduction is to contain a research background, description of methodology, findings and a thorough discussion based on the results obtained, according to the same template as the summarising introduction for the doctoral thesis. The licentiate thesis is to be defended orally at a public seminar. If there are previously published articles of relevance to the research area, they can be included but should, in that case, make up less than half of the number of articles in the thesis.
For doctoral students admitted before 1 January 2020 the following applies:
To obtain a Licentiate of Medical Science, the student must have written at least two scientific paper and a short summary. The paper must be structured in the form of a scientific article. The dissertation/papers must be orally defended at a seminar held at the student's department.
For doctoral students admitted before 1 January 2015 the following applies:
To obtain a Licentiate of Medical Science, the student must have written at least one scientific paper and a short summary. The paper must be structured in the form of a scientific article. The dissertation/papers must be orally defended at a seminar held at the student's department.