The comprehensive examination aims to evaluate the student's specialized knowledge in their field of study based on the research literature and to synthesize it with new research questions. The written exams are coordinated by the Program Directors in collaboration with the Advisor(s).

Selection Criteria

• Academic excellence: Candidates must hold a recognized University Degree and a master’s Degree in Maritime or Finance or Economics or Business Administration or Pure and Applied Sciences. The successful candidates must have very good or excellent grade in the previous programs they have attended and have sufficient knowledge of the English language**.
• Innovative research proposal: The candidates should submit a clear idea or question; what they propose to do. Further, they should explain why their proposal is important and identify the additional knowledge they expect to contribute to the relevant literature.
• Reference letters: The candidates should submit at least two (2) reference letters from people they know them at the academic or professional level.
•  Other criteria: Other certificates and documents such as academic or professional work (publications, newspaper articles, other research etc.).
• Personal interview

 * The list of Elective Courses is subject to changes due to the restructure of the department.

** Acceptable evidence of English language proficiency is considered a G.C.E / I.G.C.S.E exam with a level of at least C or ELTS/IELTS of at least 6.5 or a TOEFL of at least 580 (paper-based test) / 82 (internet-based test). Graduates of an English-language University curriculum are exempt from this requirement. For the Greek language, a certificate of proficiency is a degree from a Greek-speaking secondary school or a Bachelor degree from a higher or higher education institution.

PhD Program Directors:

 Anastasia Kopita (anastasia.kopita@cut.ac.cy) & Demetris Koursaros (demetris.koursaros@cut.ac.cy)

Administrative Support:

Demetra Christodoulidou (d.christodoulidou@cut.ac.cy)

Research Areas( September 2023)

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Finance" 
  Research Advisors: Neophytos Lambertides, n.lambertides@cut.ac.cy  Panayiotis Andreou, panayiotis.andreou@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Finance/Corporate Governance"  
  Research Advisor: Elena Kalotychou, eleni.kalotychou@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Banking or Financial Technology" 
  Research Advisor: Demetris Koursaros, demetris.koursaros@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Finance" 
  Research Advisor: Christodoulos Louca, christodoulos.louca@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: "Financial Literacy " 
  Research Advisors: Panayiotis Andreou, panayiotis.andreou@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Finance in the topic: " Digital and Green Finance for Microentrepreneurs" 
  Research Advisors: Panayiotis Andreou, panayiotis.andreou@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in Applied Econometrics in the topic: "Financial Econometrics" or "Macro-econometrics"  
  Research Advisor: Christos S. Savva, christos.savva@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in "Computational econometrics" 
  Research Advisors: Erricos Kontoghiorghes, erricos.k@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in "Computational methods for large scale data analysis" 
  Research Advisors: Erricos Kontoghiorghes, erricos.k@cut.ac.cy

• One (1) post in "Statistics for text mining" 
  Research Advisors: Erricos Kontoghiorghes, erricos.k@cut.ac.cy