17 PhD programmes offered by the university

The Archaeological Studies degree at Yale University focuses on ritual complexes and writing, ceramic analysis, warfare, ancient civilizations, origins of agriculture, and museum studies. 

The doctoral program in the Department of Italian Studies at Yale University offers paths of study and research in all periods of Italophone literary and cultural studies, at the crossroads of disciplines and academic traditions.

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies degree at Yale University critically interrogates gender and sexuality as categories of  inequality, difference, and identification. 

The doctoral program in Sociology at Yale University prepares students for careers in research and teaching.  

At the Yale University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Biological Anthropology. Join us!

The Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Department at the Yale University aims to understand and improve health equity, both domestically and globally. 

Students in the German Studies degree at the Yale University are expected to begin teaching in the third year of study, while preparing for the oral examination.

Yale University’s Ph.D. Program in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the offers training in a wide variety of topics and areas that intersect on the terrains of ethnography and contemporary social and cultural theory. 

Students in the combined degree Music and African American Studies program at Yale University will complete fourteen term courses 

The graduate program of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University emphasizes scholarship based on sound knowledge of the languages, civilizations, and material culture of the Near East.

Yale University’s Ph.D. program has a strong historical record of producing leading scholars in the field of Political Science. 

Yale University's Department of Economics offers a challenging and rigorous academic program, a distinguished and accessible faculty, and a friendly, supportive environment for study.

At the Yale University we offer our graduate students a phd degree in German Studies - Film and Media Studies. 

Graduate American Studies students at Yale University enter either the Ph.D. program or the one year M.A. program. Students in the Ph.D. program earn the M.A. en route to the doctorate. 

Yale University’s graduate program in French literature offers both a rigorous grounding in French Literature and an interdisciplinary approach to French theory, thought, and culture.  

The faculty associated with the Department of Psychology at Yale University represents the cutting edge of research and scholarship in this broad and exciting field.

African American Studies at Yale University offers a combined Ph.D. in conjunction with several other departments and programs.