48 PhD programmes offered by the university

Get the training you need to become an academic researcher and scholar. Through rigorous research experience, intensive course work, and collaboration with faculty mentors, you'll gain the skills for a career as an independent researcher in Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the New York University.

This Educational Leadership and Policy Studies doctorate at New York University includes administrative core and research classes that emphasize critical analysis of contemporary problems of practice in collaborative study environments with professors, school leaders, and doctoral students.

The Hebrew and Judaic Studies Ph.D. is a research degree at New York University. Its completion signifies that the recipient is able to conduct original research and has made a serious contribution to knowledge of the field.

At the New York University we offer a phd degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies - Law. Join us. 

The Comparative Literature and History - Russia degree allows students to take advantage of New York University’s strengths in Russian literature, history, and culture in a range of departments. 

As a multidisciplinary program, the Institute of French Studies offers three Joint Ph.D. degrees: one in French Studies and French Literature at New York University, one in French Studies and History, and one in French Studies and Anthropology. 

The PhD in American Studies at New York University is one of the country’s top-ranked programs in this dynamic field.

At the New York University, we offer our gradaute students a phd degree in Politics - Law. 

At the New York University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in French Studies - Law. Join us! 

The Program in Cognition and Perception at New York University spans multiple subareas of psychology, such as perception, attention, memory, categorization, language, emotion, decision-making, development, motor control, and cognitive neuroscience. 

At the New York University, we offer a our graduate students a phd degree in French Studies - History. 

Pursue scholarship that impacts education, research, and policy around the world. In this concentration in the PhD in Teaching and Learning, you can focus your studies on history, social studies, and global education. We offer a History, Social Studies, and Global Education degree at the New York University. 

The Archaeological Anthropology program at New York University seeks both to understand the human past—including cultural origins and evolution, human adaptations, inequality, agriculture, and urban life—and to link this past to the world that we inhabit today.

Working closely with cultural anthropologists in the department, linguistic anthropologists examine how language use and choice shape the cultural and social diversity of communities and persons. We offer a Linguistic Anthropology degree at New York University. 

The principles underlying our Counseling Psychology doctorate at the New York University are a focus on a developmental understanding of clients; commitment to a health model of intervention; and appreciation of the gendered, cultural, and institutional contexts of people’s lives, as these contexts affect both clients and counselors.

The Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University is part of a network of intellectual sites grouped within the Center for French Civilization and Culture. 

New York University’s Department of History features a Ph.D. field in the study of the African Diaspora.

The Department of Italian Studies at New York University is recognized as one of the finest Italian programs in the country. 

At the New York University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Psychology - Law. Join us! 

New York University's Department of History offers a premier site for training in the Ph.D. in African History.