1.French doctoral program.
For a standard 3-year PhD, the "PhD" consists of six semesters, so there are two teaching (or research) semesters per year:
Fall Semester: Late September to January, closed during Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Spring Semester: From the beginning of February to June, some institutions have a spring break at Easter.
Institutions usually conduct exams at the end of each semester and have a three-month summer vacation between July and September.
Research in France is generally carried out in public universities, so some engineering schools or doctoral programs in private universities are affiliated with public universities. The duration of the Ph.D. program is three years in the natural sciences and three to four years in the humanities and social sciences.
2.Ph.D. Application Requirements in France.
Grade requirements for doctoral application: GPA requirements should preferably be more than 32。
Language requirements for doctoral applications: There are no clear language requirements for doctoral applications in France, which can be both French and English, depending on the requirements of the supervisor or whether your supervisor can communicate with you smoothly, and whether it can be completed in a text that he can understand.
Admission of Ph.D.: French Ph.D. admission does not require examinations, it is a tutor system, generally need to contact the French supervisor, according to the direction of the discipline and their own research interests to apply, the academic requirements mainly look at the individual's research ability, innovation ability and motivation for scientific research, etc., there is no unified requirement.
3.Graduation difficulty.
In most countries, in addition to graduation**, PhDs are required to publish articles in journals designated by the university, while French PhDs have relaxed graduation requirements and do not need to publish many articles in core journals. As long as you discuss with the tutor step by step, write down the graduation **, meet the requirements of the tutor, know your own ** well during the graduation defense, and the questions asked during the defense can be answered with great confidence.
4.Recommended Institutions.
In the QS World University Rankings 2024, there are four universities in France in the top 100: 24 Paris École Polytechnic PSL, 38 École Polytechnique IP Paris, 59 Sorbonne and 71 Paris-Saclay Paris-Saclay.