50 Affordable PhD programmes in Netherlands

The Strategy and Organization group at Tilburg University conducts fundamental and interdisciplinary research by taking an organizational and managerial approach.

The aim of the Experimental and Political Economics programme at the University of Amsterdam is improving the understanding of the behavioural determinants and consequences of economic decision making by focusing on political economic issues, allowing for bounded rationality, and using laboratory experimentation as a research method.

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) PhD programme at the University of Amsterdam is designed to support and guide PhD candidates in their track to become highly qualified scientific researchers in the areas described by the institute's research mission.

PhD candidates at Leiden University carry out a Chemistry programme of independent research and additional (limited) course work, culminating in production of a PhD thesis in typically 4 years.

The Actuarial Science and Mathematical Finance programme is a research programme in the section Quantitative Economics of the Amsterdam School of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. It concerns both fundamental and applied research in the field of financial and economic risk management.

Macro and International Economics at the University of Amsterdam is one of the research groups of the Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute. It focuses on applied and theoretical research within the areas of macroeconomics and international economics.

The University of Amsterdam Econometrics research programme aims at improving the accuracy, efficiency and robustness of econometric methods.

The Design for AgriFood and Ecological Systems program at Wageningen University and Research is a two-year post-master designer programme which leads to an Engineering Doctorate (EngD).

The objective of the Equilibrium, Expectations and Dynamics programme at the University of Amsterdam is the development of (mathematical) economic theory, focusing on the understanding of economic processes.

The vision of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication at the University of Amsterdam is to solve scientific and societal problems in the broad field of language and communication through a focus on variability in language and the causes and constraints thereon.

The Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies was created with the goal of pooling and developing further existing research expertise in transnational and regional studies within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.

Tilburg University’s Ph.D. program in Accountancy is offered by one of the most productive faculties in Europe.

The Operations Research (OR) group at Tilburg University aims at conducting cutting-edge research in deterministic OR research, stochastic OR, and game theory. The focus of the program is on fundamental theoretical research for improving the quality of decision making in business.

The Maritime Supply Chain programme offered by Netherlands Maritime University develops advanced expertise in logistics strategy, transport networks, and global trade systems.

The research programme Markets and Organizations (M&O) within the Amsterdam School of Economics at the University of Amsterdam joins researchers interested in studying the effective functioning of markets and organisations.

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) is the medical faculty of Leiden University. It is a modern centre for research, education and patient care with a strong scientific orientation. We offer a phd degree in Medicine at the Leiden University.

PhD candidates at Leiden University carry out a Environmental Sciences programme of independent research and additional (limited) course work, culminating in production of a PhD thesis in typically 4 years.

There are about 150 researchers working on their Dentistry PhD research at ACTA at the University of Amsterdam. PhD-students at ACTA can be employees or guest researchers.

PhD Astronomy candidates at Leiden University carry out a programme of independent research and additional (limited) course work, culminating in production of a PhD thesis in typically 4 years.

Heritage, Memory and Material Culture at the University of Amsterdam particularly excels on national and international levels in five interdisciplinary research areas (‘themes’) that connect the fields of heritage, memory studies and material culture.