Postgraduate studies, which regularly lasts three years (six semesters, 180 ECTS) and ends with a doctorate, leads to the maturity in scientific philosophic research or the scientific research of religious disciplines and qualification for university teaching. In order to achieve a doctorate from philosophy or religious studies, one must regularly over the three years be enrolled in the Faculty, to attend mandatory disciplines and exercises set in the Regulations of study programmes and to write a doctor’s thesis that he will publicly defend in front of the commission.