11 PhD programmes offered by the university

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, in close cooperation with the larger philosophical community of Pittsburgh, offers a broad graduate program in philosophy, oriented primarily toward the doctoral degree.

The Classics program at the University of Pittsburgh is primarily designed to train professional scholars and teachers of the Classics with a specialization in ancient philosophy, and/or ancient science.

History students at the University of Pittsburgh learn how to research, interpret and teach the histories and historiographies of particular places from comparative, cross-cultural, transnational and global approaches.

The graduate program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh is committed to research and teaching in the historical and conceptual foundations of science.

PhD Linguistics students at the University of Pittsburgh are working side-by-side with our faculty on highly specialized research into phonetics, African-American English, language contact, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.

The French faculty at the University of Pittsburgh is a community of scholars and teachers committed to breaking down the borders between disciplines, time periods, and geographic contexts

The Slavic Languages and Literatures program at the University of Pittsburgh encourages interdisciplinary work in training future scholars in Slavic Studies and it prepares students to be competitive on the national job market.

Doctoral students in English Composition at the University of Pittsburgh engage in innovative research and teaching while supported by faculty with an interdisciplinary emphasis to writing, pedagogy, and media.

The English Department’s four graduate focal areas in literary studies offer special opportunities for intellectual preparation and innovation to groups of graduate students and faculty members with shared commitments. This English Literature program is offered at the University of Pittsburgh.

The University of Pittsburgh's graduate program in Hispanic Languages and Literatures is one of the top graduate programs in Latin American literature and cultural studies in the United States.

Organized by the theoretical and interdisciplinary emphasis of critical and cultural studies, the Critical and Cultural Studies doctoral program at the University of Pittsburgh fosters challenging and inventive work in the ongoing project of English studies, broadly conceived.