The ius promovendi, in Dutch higher education, is the right to supervise doctoral students.
Accordingly, a doctoral student is called promovendus (literally, one who is to be promoted).
Lower-ranked Dutch academics can act as the day-to-day supervisor of a doctoral student, but only professors with the ius promovendi may be listed as the official advisor ("promotor") at the doctoral defense of a student.
In 2017, the Dutch parliament passed a law extending the ius promovendi to some associate professors.
Originally, this was given only to traditional universities, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries under the direction of Prussian education minister Friedrich Althoff, the ius promovendi was also extended to technical universities.