12 PhD programmes offered by the university

The French doctoral program at McMaster University focuses on the literatures, films and cultures of the Francophone world.

Health Policy is an interdisciplinary field that investigates how health policy is made, what it is, what it might become, and its impact. The implementation of Health Policy within a society requires an evidence-base, coupled with an explicit strategy and process to achieve specific health care objectives. This degree is offered at McMaster University.

Based in the department of Linguistics and Languages at McMaster University, the PhD program in the Cognitive Science of Language is interdisciplinary and includes faculty from Humanities, Science, and Health Sciences.

Geography focuses on environment and health, geographic information systems and social geography. This degree is offered at McMaster University.

The department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour (PNB) at McMaster University offers this PhD program in Psychology.

The Department of Sociology at McMaster University offers a graduate experience that fosters close mentorship with faculty members who are leading scholars in our six areas of specialty.

In order to more robustly examine and explain policy dynamics and change, students in this Political Science - Comparative Public Policy program at McMaster University are trained in the comparative method and required to examine a policy issue in at least two political jurisdictions. These jurisdictions may be states, but they could also be at the subnational or international level.

The Department of Political Science at McMaster University offers the PhD degree in the field of Political Science - International Relations. McMaster has one of the strongest International Relations PhD programs in Canada.

This Health and Society program at McMaster University focuses on the interdisciplinary study of social, cultural, political, and environmental aspects of health.

Global Health promotes equity in health and addresses current and future global health issues in innovative and multidisciplinary ways. This degree is offered at McMaster University.

Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present. We combine commitments to the exploration of archaeological, physical, and cultural aspects of human and social being through a range of approaches with the aim of enabling fuller understanding all aspects of humans. This degree is offered at McMaster University.

Explaining, and analyzing the relationships of, economic phenomena at the individual and economy-wide levels that affect the allocation of resources and the distribution of well-being using economic theory and quantitative methods. This Economics degree is offered at McMaster University.