Procedure and Timeline

At the University of Tübingen, the overall appointment procedure can take up to 12 months. The process involves a departmental search committee, the Faculty Council, the President’s Office, the University Senate Subcommittee on Structural Planning, the University Senate as a whole, as well as the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts (MWK) of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The time span from the publication of a job offer to the actual offer of a professorship to the first-ranked candidate can take anywhere from four to seven months. It can take another four months from the initial offer to final acceptance of a professorship,

The appointment process consists of the following steps:

APPOINTMENT PROCEDURE

4 – 5 WEEKS

Identification of professorship to be filled
Job description and ad text development
Formation of hiring committee

3 – 6 WEEKS

Obtaining approval from the Ministry of Science, Research, and Arts (MWK) on the basis of the job description for W3 and tenure track professorships

4 WEEKS

Job advertisement
Active recruitment

5 – 10 WEEKS

Review of applications and preselections
Invitations for interviews
External review of short list

Creation of ranked hiring list (usually around three names) by the hiring committee

3 WEEKS

Approval of the ranked hiring list within the university bodies (Faculty, President´s Office, Senate)

3 – 6 WEEKS

Obtaining approval from the Ministry of Science, Research, and Arts (MWK) to the ranked hiring list for W3 and tenure track professorships

2 WEEKS

Offer of the professorship to the first-ranked candidate