126 PhD programmes in Ecology

The Department of Human Ecology at University of Alberta offers a PhD in Human Ecology, and master’s degrees in Textiles and Clothing, Material Culture, Family Ecology and Practice, and Aging.

The Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at University of Wisconsin Madison offers graduate education and training in a number of areas leading to the master of science and/or the doctor of philosophy degree in Wildlife Ecology. 

The Human Ecology programme offered by Lund University develops advanced research expertise in socio‑ecological systems and the interaction between human societies and environmental processes.

The EcoWild programme offered by University of Oxford has been designed to deliver the next generation of innovative researchers and conservationists needed to protect some of the Earth’s most vulnerable and valuable ecosystems. 

Few universities have the fertile Ecology and Organismal Biology research environment that The University of Toledo offers.

The Ecological, Veterinary, Agronomic, and Bioengineering Sciences programme offered by INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées develops advanced research expertise in evolutionary biology, ecosystems, and biological interactions across multiple levels of organization.

As a PhD student in this programme at the University of Brighton, you will benefit from membership of the university's Ecology, Conservation and Zoonosis Research and Enterprise Group.

The Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware offers programs leading to the doctor of philosophy in entomology and wildlife ecology.

Karstology from University of Nova Gorica is intended for candidates who have completed the previous study programme for obtaining university education or a second-level study programme of various fields, and who wish to gain deeper insight of this broadly “integrated system of sciences on karst” and become karst researchers or karst managers.

The Department of Bioscience from Aarhus University conducts both basic research in a range of biological disciplines and research-based public sector consultancy in the areas of environmental management of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Currently the research activities at the department are organized in 11 sections in which Department of  Ecoscience offers PhD studies.

The PhD programme in Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management is offered by Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

The mission of the Marine Biology and Ecology (MBE) PhD program at the University of Miami, is to train the next generation of scientists in the fundamental skills, knowledge, and practice of biology of the oceanic environment. 

The department does not require a reading knowledge of a foreign language, but this may be imposed by the student's faculty dissertation research committee. The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program is offered by the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Quantitative Life Sciences offered by the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science at McGill University is a research-intensive program that emphasizes rigorous and interdisciplinary learning opportunities.

The Forest Ecology and Management PhD education at our department at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences covers a range of research areas spanning basic research on fundamental ecosystem processes to applied research within forest management.

Gain expert training and advanced knowledge in Ecological and Evolutionary sciences with a PhD in Ecology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Doctoral Natural Resource Ecology and Management students at the Oklahoma State University are provided with high quality, advanced training and instruction in the application of the scientific method to problems in natural resource ecology and management.

Are you interested in joining the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program offered at the Yale University? 

Crop Production Ecology PhD students at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences take on fundamental issues that affect all of us. How can we combine improved quality and quantity of crop production with enhanced ecosystem services and reduced negative environmental impact?

In the Biological Sciences (Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour) programme from University of Liverpool, we study patterns in the natural environment, from the behaviour of individual organisms to dynamics of populations and the diversity of communities.