15 PhD programmes offered by the university

The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Political Science.

The aim of the Experimental and Political Economics programme at the University of Amsterdam is improving the understanding of the behavioural determinants and consequences of economic decision making by focusing on political economic issues, allowing for bounded rationality, and using laboratory experimentation as a research method.

The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Sociology.

The objective of the Equilibrium, Expectations and Dynamics programme at the University of Amsterdam is the development of (mathematical) economic theory, focusing on the understanding of economic processes.

The Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies was created with the goal of pooling and developing further existing research expertise in transnational and regional studies within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Geography, Planning and International Development Studies.

The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Anthropology.

Macro and International Economics at the University of Amsterdam is one of the research groups of the Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute. It focuses on applied and theoretical research within the areas of macroeconomics and international economics.

The University of Amsterdam Econometrics research programme aims at improving the accuracy, efficiency and robustness of econometric methods.

The vision of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication at the University of Amsterdam is to solve scientific and societal problems in the broad field of language and communication through a focus on variability in language and the causes and constraints thereon.

The research programme Markets and Organizations (M&O) within the Amsterdam School of Economics at the University of Amsterdam joins researchers interested in studying the effective functioning of markets and organisations.

Life in contemporary Western societies heavily depends on media and communication technologies. How we work and how we spend our spare time; what we do as citizens and as consumers; how we relate to others and to ourselves – all of this is now heavily pervaded by new media and communication technologies. This Communication Research programme is offered at the University of Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis is a research institute and doctoral school at the University of Amsterdam dedicated to the critical and innovative study of culture from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective grounded in the humanities but increasingly extending to non-humanities fields.

The aim of the Research Program in Child Development (RPCD) at the University of Amsterdam is to gain knowledge on variations in typical and atypical child development, and on preventive and clinical intervention programs that can be used to effectively support child development

The Human Capital (HC) research programme is one of the research programmes of the Microeconomics section of the Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute at the University of Amsterdam.