218 PhD programmes in Geography

The Social Sciences programme at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan provides doctoral training focusing on research and analysis of social, economic, legal, and political phenomena.

Faculty use a range of research methods including quantitative and modeling techniques as well as qualitative research techniques. We offer a degree in Geography at the University of Saskatchewan. 

The PhD programme in the department of Environmental Geography at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has a strong methodological focus in developing, applying and interpreting novel approaches for the description, mapping, and modelling methods land and food systems on different spatial and temporal scales.

The PhD Geography program at Simon Fraser University offers an opportunity to stengthen research and analytical skills, while contributing to a deeper or more nuanced understanding of a specific topic within the discipline. 

Geography at Oklahoma State University is an innovative and vibrant discipline that provides an integrated approach to the study of the interplay of human societies and physical environments. 

The PhD in Geography at Texas A&M University is designed to give candidates a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of their professional field (physical, human, human-environment) and training in methods of research that will provide the student the necessary intellectual and technical foundation to solve geographical problems across multiple spatial scales.

The Geography Education PhD programme from Masaryk University objective is to provide scholars, researchers, stakeholders, curriculum developers and motivated educators with high quality scientific training. 

The program from University of Montreal promotes Geography as an ideal science through which to study the environment, integrating approaches from both the social and the natural sciences.   

The Geography course from the University of Cambridge welcomes applications from well-qualified candidates with previous training in geography or a related discipline and normally a relevant master's qualification. 

A Geography degree at University of Otago will equip you with valuable research and communication skills using interdisciplinary approaches to explore environmental and societal challenges.

In the Geography program at University of Victoria, you’ll work on important issues affecting society today, like conservation and the changing climate’s effect on human systems.

The Geography programme offered by University of Waterloo develops advanced research expertise in environmental systems, spatial technologies, human-environment interactions, and sustainable management of natural and built environments.

The Ph.D. degree in Geography from Kent State University provides specialized training and inquiry into contemporary problems in geography.

Geophysics graduate degrees at the University of Oklahoma require students to complete courses in their area of specialization and conduct original research projects that will result in a Thesis (M.S.) or Dissertation (Ph.D.). 

The PhD in Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University is an innovative interdisciplinary degree which combines the theories and practices of three key social science disciplines; geography, sociocultural anthropology, and sociology.

The aim of the PhD in Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is to offer advanced training in the fields of earth, atmospheric, hydro-environmental, global change and other environmental Sciences, as well as studies concerned with human environments and to promote inter-disciplinary exchange between various arts and science disciplines.

The Geography programme offered by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona develops advanced research expertise in spatial analysis and environmental studies from a critical perspective.

At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), we offer a phd degree in Geophysics and Space Physics. 

Earth Sciences was one of the University’s first Ph.D. granting departments. Southern Methodist University grants graduate degrees in geology, Geophysics, and applied geophysics.

The Department of Geography at Royal Holloway University of London is in the top tier of UK departments and has notable research concentrations in Quaternary science, social, cultural, and historical geography, the geohumanities, geopolitics and security, development studies and sustainability.