29 PhD programmes offered by the university

The PhD program in Spanish Literature and Culture at Arizona State University consists of two specializations: Spanish literature and culture.

Are you interested in border issues? You can conduct innovative and multidisciplinary research tailored to your unique interests in the nation's only doctoral program in Transborder Studies, at Arizona State University.

The PhD in Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University is a research-intensive doctoral degree program grounded in theory and designed to prepare graduates for research-oriented careers in many areas.

The Anthropology (Complex Adaptive Systems Science) doctoral program at Arizona State University trains the next generation of scientists in advanced concepts and methods needed for approaching diverse phenomena in the social and life sciences.

Get on the map with this Geography program at Arizona State University offering a unique research environment that places your focus on location - the heart of geography, urban planning, climatology and GIS. Here, you can engage with distinguished faculty to tackle the pressing environmental and societal challenges facing the world today.

Do you want to make an impact on issues facing humanity around the world? Are you interested in exploring an expansive view of the successes and failures of global development approaches? This Innovation in Global Development degree at Arizona State University can train you to reimagine pathways to future development to bring about transformative change in society.

The Psychology (Quantitative Research Methods) PhD program at Arizona State University focuses on the broad class of quantitative and methodological issues that arise in the conduct of both basic and applied psychological research.

Receive solid academic preparation, intensive professional development opportunities, and strong pedagogical training and teaching experiences, all with this Spanish Linguistics program at Arizona State University.

Engage in ongoing research projects with individual Arizona State University faculty, with research teams, and with research institutes and centers from throughout the university, all with this Sociology PhD.

Are you interested in exploring the origins and implications of human uniqueness and contemporary human behavior? In this Anthropology program at Arizona State University, you will engage in intensive, collaborative training that fosters critical research on key questions in anthropology and across the social sciences.

The PhD program in Educational Policy and Evaluation at Arizona State University prepares scholars to conduct rigorous, high-impact and transdisciplinary research on education policies that affect conditions in preK-20 and other educational environments.

The PhD program in Economics at Arizona State University provides rigorous training in microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, applied economics and econometrics.

The PhD program in English (Writing, Rhetorics and Literacies) at Arizona State University promotes the study of rhetorical strategies, production, distribution and interpretation of oral, written, digital, visual, discursive, material and symbolic texts.

If you like to analyze the big picture, the Environmental Social Science (Complex Adaptive Systems Science) program at Arizona State University is the perfect addition to your studies in environmental social science. You'll examine dynamic socio-natural systems like agriculture, urban growth, water rights and natural disasters, and use your findings to create sustainable policies and solutions.

The Department of Psychology at Arizona State University offers PhD programs designed to provide outstanding training in innovative research, methodology and the application of psychological principles to a wide variety of human conditions.

The PhD program in Comparative Culture and Language at Arizona State University offers professional training that is linguistically well-grounded, historically and culturally informed, and methodologically transdisciplinary, through courses and supervision of research.

The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University offers an on-campus program of coursework and research leading to the PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

The Human Systems Engineering program at Arizona State University broadly pulls from the areas of human factors and cognitive science.

The PhD program in Political Science at Arizona State University is intended to develop scholars who demonstrate a high level of excellence in teaching and research as professional political scientists.

The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University offers a transdisciplinary graduate program leading to the PhD in communication.