At the beginning of 2014, the University of Helsinki introduced a new doctoral education system consisting of four doctoral schools, one of which operates in the field of natural sciences. These schools consist of doctoral programmes. All the doctoral students in computer science will belong to the Doctoral Programme in Computer Science (DoCS). This programme is a part of the Doctoral School of Natural Sciences that is formed by seven doctoral programmes operating mainly within the Faculty of Science.

At the end of 2014, DoCS had a total of 47 doctoral students.  20 (42.5 %) of them were foreign students, and 6 (12.8 %) were female. During 2014, four DoCS students graduated. The four other doctoral students that graduated in computer science did that before they had a possibility to become DoCS students.