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How long a doctorate takes in Germany depends on field, funding, supervision and contract. Which figures are reliable and how to plan your timeline.

Quitting a doctorate affects your employment contract, scholarship, university status and health insurance. This guide shows what to clarify before you stop.

In Baden-Württemberg you choose the doctor for the pre-employment examination yourself. This guide explains documents, costs, the prognosis and health cover under the framework agreement.

Doing a doctorate with a child means combining a post or scholarship with child benefit, parental allowance and a family allowance. Here is how the benefits fit together.

Scholarship or position: both fund a doctorate, but social contributions, health insurance and pensions differ. A comparison with a worked example.

Is a doctorate worth it? What it means for your career, which figures are verified, what a doctoral post pays and where the limits of the title lie.

The Cusanuswerk and the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst support PhD candidates under different requirements. The comparison covers denomination, admission, selection and rates.

The BAföG maximum rate for students up to 24 living away from home is 855 euros a month. This guide explains how it is built up, with a table and a worked example.

PhD in dentistry (Promotion in Zahnmedizin, Dr. med. dent.): how long a post runs, what TV-L grade E 13 pays and which health insurance fits.

The Friedrich Naumann Foundation study scholarship funds a first degree. Application windows, the two-stage selection and the study-costs allowance at a glance.