14 PhD programmes offered by the university

We offer a phd degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Yale University. Students concentrating in Chinese or Japanese literature are encouraged to take at least one term course in Western literature or literary theory. 

The Ph.D. program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University explores the dynamic fields of Latin American, Luso-Brazilian, Latinx, and Iberian studies in all their rich and diverse linguistic, literary, and cultural traditions, and adopting multiple intellectual approaches.

The History of Science and Medicine Program (HSHM) is a semi-autonomous graduate track within the Department of History from Yale University.

Our PhD Linguistics program at Yale University takes a distinctively integrative and interdisciplinary approach in investigating the systems of knowledge that comprise our linguistic competence. Students are exposed to different methodological approaches, while receiving firm grounding in the traditional domains of linguistics.

The Religious Studies program at Yale University research religions from around the world in an effort to understand the role of religion as social movement, textual tradition, sensory culture, and arbiter of value.

The English Department at Yale University offers a broad-ranging program of graduate education, with courses that engage all periods of British literature, American literature since its inception, and many of the contemporary interdisciplines (feminism, media studies, post-colonialism, Black studies, LGBTQIA+ studies, and the environmental humanities).

The doctoral program at Yale University in Architecture currently offers two tracks of study: Architecture - History and Theory of Architecture, and Ecosystems in Architectural Sciences. 

Yale University’s Ph.D. Program in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the offers training in a wide variety of topics and areas that intersect on the terrains of ethnography and contemporary social and cultural theory. 

The Classics department at Yale University is a leader in the training of graduates in the study of Mediterranean antiquity. 

The Program in Medieval Studies at the Yale University was founded to offer advanced training in interdisciplinary research methods to graduate students with an interest in the Middle Ages. 

To be accepted into the combined degree Film Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures program, students at Yale University must be accepted by both departments. Each student’s program of study will be planned in consultation with the DGS in each area. 

Yale University’s Slavic Languages and Literatures Department is one of the most dynamic in the United States and takes great pride in the creative and forward-thinking scholarship of its faculty and students. 

The purpose of the History program at the Yale University is to develop historians who possess both intellectual range and specialized competence. 

The Graduate Program of the Comparative Literature department at Yale University invites students to the study and understanding of literature beyond linguistic or national boundaries.