10 PhD programmes offered by the university

The purpose of our PhD program in Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology is to prepare highly qualified scientists who have excellent up-to-date training in the fields of biology or bioinformatics.

The PhD program in Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology is designed to train academic mathematicians, in a wide range of subdisciplines, and mathematical research scientists working in government or the private sector.

With faculty members who are leaders in their fields, state-of-the-art research facilities, and numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, the graduate program in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology will position you at the leading edging of innovation.

Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) is an internationally reputed multidisciplinary program sponsored jointly by the College of Computing, the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the School of Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Bioinformatics program includes an interdisciplinary doctoral (PhD) program spanning a variety of academic departments at Georgia Institute of Technology.

The School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the most highly ranked chemistry departments in the U.S. Its close ties with the Georgia Tech College of Engineering and College of Computing provide a unique and cutting-edge multidisciplinary environment to pursue graduate work.

The Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences at Georgia Institute of Technology is designed to give graduates training in the quantitative analysis of problems in the biosciences – spanning foundational advances and application to challenges in human health, energy and the environment.

The goal of the Ph.D. in Ocean Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology is to educate the next generation of transdisciplinary ocean scientists and engineers by combining the basic and applied sciences with innovative ocean technologies, and to advance interdisciplinary research at the frontiers of the physical, biological, chemical and human dimensions of ocean systems. 

The graduate curriculum in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology provides the background and training needed to conduct and complete high quality, world-recognized research.

The core strength comprising the discipline of Operations Research (OR) at Georgia Institute of Technology resides in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE).