History
In 1938, composer and musicologist Sigismund Toduţă obtained his PhD in Musicology at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. His doctoral thesis involved a complex musical analysis of an Italian Renaissance manuscript discovered, transcribed, studied, and interpreted by him. Copies of the manuscript, thesis, and certificates are preserved in the Academy’s archives.
Based on his initiative, the Ministry of Education approved in 1968 the establishment of the first Romanian doctoral school in musicology at the Conservatory of Music “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj.
Doctoral university studies are conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Higher Education Law no. 199/2023 and the Framework Regulation on Doctoral University Studies no. 3020/2024.
The National Academy of Music ”Gheorghe Dima” is an accredited Doctoral Studies Organizing Institution (IOSUD) through the “Sigismund Toduţă” Doctoral School, offering scientific and professional doctoral programmes in Music.
Doctoral university studies represent the third cycle of university studies offered at the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima”; their purpose is to develop skills in conducting scientific research/artistic creation. Doctoral university studies allow the acquisition of a qualification at level 8 of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and the National Qualifications Framework, which ensures the capacity for integration into the highly qualified labor market.