7.4k PhD programmes in Europe

At Aberystwyth University Management and Business School, we attract professionals from around the world who aspire to the challenges of the global business community. Our dynamic learning environment is structured to support your professional development. Our curriculum draws on the expertise of professionals throughout business and industry.

The Architecture programme from Instituto Superior Técnico is structured in the framework of a wide-ranging understanding about the processes of production and use of the built space at both the urban and the building scale. 

The Doctoral Chemistry Programme at Instituto Superior Técnico aims to provide the students with a broad, modern and autonomy-oriented advanced training in the different fields of this exciting science, from theoretical to experimental methodologies, and from pure to applied approaches.

The School of Languages and Translation Studies at University of Turku has eight departments and in in Utuling we have ten major subjects.

The PhD Didactics programme at Aarhus University focuses on the analysis of practice and policy in education, in particular of aim, content, form, organization and performance of learning, teaching and professional development in school and pre-school settings, and analysis of school development and of teacher education.

Environmental Sciences from Aarhus University provide an integrated interdisciplinary approach to research in the functioning and management of complex environmental systems that requires the involvement of both quantitative and qualitative science domains.

The School of Computing from University of Kent welcomes applications for the Computer Science research programmes. 

The Medical Genetics program of The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics  promotes excellence and educates students on the significant issues in Medical Genetics.

Study psychology at postgraduate level and you become part of a diverse, dynamic and supportive community in which to research and learn.

The Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering  course from Abdullah Gül University (AGU) aims to provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary research perspective in both materials sciences and mechanical engineering.

The Doctoral Program Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR) is part of Doctoral School of EPFL at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. It brings together in one doctoral program the world of architecture and that of social sciences concerned with the inhabited space and combines basic and applied research in an interdisciplinary perspective.

The Contemporary India Research programme offered by King's College London investigates the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamics of modern India through interdisciplinary and globally informed research.

The Technology of Polymer Materials from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava knows scientific methods of research and development of new macromolecular materials on the basis of synthetic or natural polymers focused on development of novel polymer materials with new structure and new properties. 

The Psychology programme offered by Queen's University Belfast develops advanced expertise in psychological theory, research design, and scientific investigation, preparing researchers to explore behaviour, cognition, development, health, and biological processes through original inquiry.

The Inorganic Technologies and Materials from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava graduate is able to plan the research work and make individually decision on solving complex technological problems in the field of inorganic technology including waste management. 

The Palaeography and Manuscript Studies programme offered by King's College London investigates ancient handwriting, manuscript cultures, textual transmission, and the preservation of written heritage across historical periods and linguistic traditions.

Are you interested in doing some independent research work and would like to start a Musicology doctorate at the University of Bern? 

We offer a International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles degree at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. 

The goal of the Translation and Language Sciences programme of the Pompeu Fabra University is to train researchers in linguistics and translation so that they can make significant contributions to the discipline, and show creativity, independence of judgment and methodological thoroughness.

Research in the School of Biosciences revolves around understanding systems and processes in the living cell. It has a strong molecular focus with leading-edge activities that are synergistic with one another and complementary to the teaching provision.