56 PhD programmes in Social Sciences in Germany
Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Network Effects
Following the successful first phase, the second phase for the University of Bamberg Research Training Group on Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Network Effects will be focused on the role of heterogeneity and network effects in economic and political economic processes.
Berlin School of Economics
The Berlin School of Economics unites Berlin's career development programmes for economists at the PhD and Postdoc levels in a single and unique structure. This degree is offered by Hertie School Berlin.
Refiguration of Spaces
With TU Berlin's innovative Refiguration of Spaces Doctoral Program, you can immerse yourself in the dynamic exploration of spatial reconfiguration, contributing to transformative advancements in design, planning, and spatial sciences at one of Germany's premier institutions.
Competition Economics
The Graduate Programme Competition Economics is a PhD programme organised by the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Management and Economics
The traditional track of the Gutenberg School of Management and Economics doctoral program at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is based on writing a PhD thesis and involves only minor coursework.
Social Sciences and Philosophy
Philip University in Marburg proudly offers an enriching doctoral program in Social Sciences and Philosophy, where academic excellence converges with a tradition of intellectual rigor. Aspiring scholars find themselves immersed in a vibrant academic community, dedicated to fostering groundbreaking research and nurturing critical thinkers.
Development Research
The Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn is an international institute conducting interdisciplinary research on development-related issues all over the world.
Business, Economics and Society
The School of Business, Economics and Society at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has a long tradition of conducting excellent research that addresses challenges facing the economy, business and society.
Business and Human Rights
The International Doctorate Programme in Business and Human Rights - Governance Challenges in a Complex World at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) establishes an inter- and transdisciplinary research forum for excellent doctoral projects addressing practically relevant problems and theoretically grounded questions in the field of business and human rights.
Psychology
Embark on a transformative academic journey at Philip University in Marburg, renowned for its exceptional doctoral program in Psychology. Aspiring scholars in the field of Psychology find a nurturing environment at this esteemed institution.
North American Studies
The Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) at Freie Universität Berlin aims to prepare doctoral students for the various challenges they will encounter in their future careers.
Learning Sciences
The Doctoral Training Program (DTP) at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich is one central training component of the MCLS, the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences.
Doctor of Philosophy
Stuttgart Media University (HdM)'s Doctor of Philosophy program is a hallmark of academic excellence, offering a unique pathway for scholars in the realm of media studies.
Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations
The ICD Academy for Cultural Diplomacy's Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations program, in partnership with the University of Bucharest, epitomizes excellence in the field of cultural diplomacy.
The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science
How do we conceive of the world? What is the structure and composition of our concepts? How do we represent in our minds categories, individuals, relations, properties, events, or sentence meanings? The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is a research centre that addresses such issues.
Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies
The Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies at the Hertie School Berlin is the doctoral programme of the cluster of excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS). PhD researchers study the manifold contestations and transformations in the economy, politics and society of contemporary liberal societies.
The Macroeconomics of Inequality
Economic inequality shapes our times. The research training group in The Macroeconomics of Inequality provides a unique research environment that brings together ambitious doctoral students, expert members of the University of Bonn economics faculty, and external academics.
Future Rural Africa
Future Rural Africa is an interdisciplinary collaborative research center involving geographers, anthropologists, political scientists, agroeconomists, soil scientists and ecologists from the University of Bonn and the University of Cologne.
The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy
The research training group The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy offers doctoral researchers at Hertie School Berlin a unique and internationally competitive three-year PhD programme in cutting-edge quantitative methods and advanced theories of demography, democracy and public policy.
East Asian Studies
The East Asian Studies programme offered by Freie Universität Berlin develops advanced expertise in regional dynamics, cross-cultural engagement, and Asia-focused scholarly analysis.