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54 PhD programmes in Music in United Kingdom
Bangor University4,3(72)
Bangor, United Kingdom Top 3% in Worldwide Music
As a research programme, the course does not have a modular outline. Each student receives close supervision on an individual and original project, which has the potential to make a new and substantial contribution to the field. The Music programme is offered at Bangor University.
Ph. D. Full-time +2 On-campus
2 years$25,845/yr
Newcastle University4,2(88)
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Top 1% in Worldwide Music
This Music PhD programme from Newcastle University enables you to pursue advanced research in the areas of classical, popular, world, contemporary, early, folk and traditional music through a range of approaches. These include practice-based research, and musicological and theoretical inquiry.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$32,340/yr
University of Huddersfield4,3(52)
Huddersfield, United Kingdom Top 4% in Worldwide Music
This Music PhD programme from the University of Huddersfield allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$24,785/yr
University of Surrey4,4(69)
Guildford, United Kingdom Top 2% in Worldwide Music
The Music programme at the University of Surrey brings together a broad range of interconnected subject areas, focused in our internationally acclaimed research centres, housed in state-of-the-art facilities.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus +2
4 years$32,207/yr
Brunel University of London4,0(135)
London, United Kingdom Top 2% in Worldwide Music
Music research at Brunel University of London focuses on composition and musicology, and with the practice-based work in music, it is recognised as ‘of world-leading significance’ and demonstrating an ‘impressive stylistic breadth’.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$29,583/yr
Cardiff University4,5(161)
Cardiff, United Kingdom Top 1% in Worldwide Composition
This Composition programme from Cardiff University, offers an opportunity to study with leading composers with internationally regarded expertise and experience in contemporary music composition.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$28,099/yr
Cardiff University4,5(161)
Cardiff, United Kingdom Top 1% in Worldwide Music
The School of Music doctorate offered at Cardiff University is a creative and comprehensive centre of excellent musical research, composition and performance.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$28,099/yr
University of York4,2(132)
York, United Kingdom Top 1% in Worldwide Music
The Music PhD programme from University of York may be proposed in any area closely related to the research interests of current members of staff (see staff profiles).
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$33,599/yr
SOAS University of London4,2(39)
London, United Kingdom Top 4% in Worldwide Music
The Music programme from SOAS University of London will help you pursue research on a wide range of subjects, mainly but not exclusively focused on the music of Asia and Africa.
Ph. D. Full-time +2 On-campus
4 years$31,001/yr
University of West London4,4(74)
London, United Kingdom Music
Within this Music course from the University of West London you will have a supervisory team made up of a Director of Studies with expertise in your chosen field, a further supervisor and, where appropriate, an additional adviser.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
4 years$21,207/yr
University of Surrey4,4(69)
Guildford, United Kingdom Top 2% in Worldwide Audio Engineering
On the Audio Engineering programme at the University of Surrey the primary goal is simply this: to make sound better. Our research combines elements of acoustics, digital signal processing, psychoacoustics, psychology, sound synthesis, software engineering, statistical analysis and user-interface design, with an understanding of the aesthetics of sound and music
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
4 years$32,207/yr
University of West London4,4(74)
London, United Kingdom Musical Theatre
This Musical Theatre course from University of West London the aims to attract those interested in exploring the connections between music, theatre and movement through scholarly research and creative projects.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
4 years$21,207/yr
University of Southampton4,4(90)
Southampton, United Kingdom Top 0.5% in Worldwide Music
For over 60 years, the Music PhD programme from University of Southampton has been a home for disciplinary innovation in composition, performance and all areas of music studies.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
2 years$26,641/yr
University of Bristol4,3(94)
Bristol, United Kingdom Top 0.5% in Worldwide Music
The Department of Music is a centre of research excellence in both composition and musicology. University of Bristol offers the Music programme.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus +2
4 years$29,026/yr
University of Gloucestershire4,2(25)
Online Music and Sound
This Music and Sound degree from University of Gloucestershire offers you the opportunity to engage in an extended piece of academic research, either through creative practice in the production of an original body of work, or through the production of a written thesis.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 Online
4 years$17,794/yr
University of Chester4,3(66)
Chester, United Kingdom Music, Media and Performance
The Department of Music, Media and Performance at the University of Chester offers research students the opportunity to work alongside well-practiced and experienced researchers.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$20,712/yr
University of Sheffield4,2(101)
Sheffield, United Kingdom Top 0.5% in Worldwide Music
The University of Sheffield has a global reputation for our world-leading research in composition, ethnomusicology, musicology, music technology, performance and psychology of music. Join our inspirational research community as a Music PhD student and start making a difference.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
4 years$31,790/yr
The Open University UK4,2(163)
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Top 5% in Worldwide Popular Music
Popular Music research at The Open University UK may focus on a wide range historical and contemporary genres, communities, practices, audiences, and institutions.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$16,839/yr
University of Plymouth4,2(104)
Plymouth, United Kingdom Top 3% in Worldwide Music
Studying the Music at the University of Plymouth will immerse you in a world of cutting-edge research under the umbrella of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
2 years$25,600/yr
University of Dundee4,1(66)
Dundee, United Kingdom Top 2% in Worldwide The Language of Visual Music
The language of visual music: An historical re-evaluation of the visual music canon in search of the origins of correlations between sound and vision. Join The Language of Visual Music programme at the University of Dundee.
Ph.D. Full-time +2 On-campus
3 years$29,079/yr