47 PhD programmes offered by the university

Welcome to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). EAPS is known for both the breadth and depth of its research.

As a Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), you will participate in research with renowned faculty and get a hands-on experience solving the world’s largest problems. 

The Computational and Systems Biology Ph.D. curriculum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has two components: the core subjects and advanced electives. Core subjects provide foundational knowledge of both biology and computational biology. 

The Doctoral Program in Social and Engineering Systems (SES) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a unique graduate research program focused on addressing concrete and societally significant problems by combining the analytical tools and methods of statistics and information sciences with engineering and the social sciences.

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers a degree in a Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies and Planning which is an advanced research degree in planning or urban studies and is focused on training individuals for research and teaching in the areas of applied social research and planning.

We prepare our Nuclear Science and Engineering students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to make contributions to the scientific fundamentals of our field.

All Chemical Engineering graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in good standing are fully funded by the department.

Our Political Science doctoral students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are advancing political science as a discipline. They explore the empirical phenomena that produce new scholarly insights—insights that improve the way governments and societies function. 

We offer a Doctor of Science degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

The Operations Research program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) provides you with thorough understanding of the theory of OR while teaching you to how to develop and apply OR methods in practice.

Studies in Marine Geology and Geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focus on understanding how our earth works by investigating the structure of the earth beneath the oceans.

To be admitted to the doctoral program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), applicants must satisfy the Institute requirements for admission to the Graduate School, and must be formally accepted by the linguistics faculty of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy as a candidate for the Ph.D. degree. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) trains scholars to study science and technology as activities situated in social and cultural contexts. 

Graduate study in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) includes graduate-level subjects in Course 16 and others at MIT, and research work culminating in a thesis. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Biological Engineering’s mission is to generate and communicate new knowledge in the application of engineering principles in biological systems and to educate leaders in our discipline.

The Biological Oceanography program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studies the life in the oceans—the distribution, abundance, and production of marine species along with the processes that govern species' spread and development.

Applications to the Mechanical Engineering (MechE) Graduate Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are accepted from persons who have completed, or will have completed by the time they arrive, a Bachelor’s degree. 

The Computational Science and Engineering doctoral program (CSE PhD) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) allows students to specialize at the doctoral level in a computation-related field of their choice, through focused coursework and a thesis. 

Welcome to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). EAPS is known for both the breadth and depth of its research. 

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Nuclear Science and Engineering.