9 PhD programmes offered by the university

The doctorate in Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University is oriented towards research from an interdisciplinary perspective, and aims to provide comprehensive knowledge of the fundamental problems in human sciences and especially those in art, literature and thought.

The main aim of the Biomedicine programme of the Pompeu Fabra University is to train students to produce a doctoral thesis in the field of health and life sciences.

The purpose of the doctoral programme in Economics, Finance and Management at Pompeu Fabra University is to prepare students with exceptional talent for careers in research and teaching at the world's leading academic institutions, research centres, consulting and financial firms, and international organizations.

The Law programme of the Pompeu Fabra University offers interdisciplinary training in the legal sciences, in order to prepare and defend a doctoral thesis.

The Information and Communication Technologies programme of the Pompeu Fabra University covers many of the most important research topics in the information society.

The Political and Social Sciences programme of the Pompeu Fabra University is part of the Department of Political and Social Science, an academic community composed of professors, research assistants, teacheing assistants and research students engaged in research and teaching activities within the disciplinary fields of Political Science and Public Administration, Sociology and Social Psychology. 

Students enrolled on the programme full-time will have to submit their theses at the end of the third academic year, with a possible extension of one additional year. The History programme offered at the Pompeu Fabra University is organized in two stages.

The objective of the Communication programme of the Pompeu Fabra University is to train high level researchers in the main fields of communication - journalism, audiovisual communications, advertising and public relations, documentation, and the Internet - related to other associated disciplines such as the social sciences and the humanities.

The goal of the Translation and Language Sciences programme of the Pompeu Fabra University is to train researchers in linguistics and translation so that they can make significant contributions to the discipline, and show creativity, independence of judgment and methodological thoroughness.