108 PhD programmes offered by the university

Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania is a collaborative and interdisciplinary PhD program that provides training for careers in neuroscience research, teaching, and more.

The English Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania prepares students for full participation in the profession as scholars and teachers of English and American literature, broadly conceived.

The Ed.D. program in Reading, Writing and Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania features a strong commitment to educational practice and preparing practitioner-scholars.

The Quantitative Methods Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania is a doctoral program focused on measurement and evaluation that trains students to create new research methodologies and design empirical data analyses. 

The University of Pennsylvania Department of  Physics and Astronomy combines world-leading science with the intimate faculty-student community unique to small departments.

The philosophy of the Biology Department at the University of Pennsylvania is to create an environment in which many areas of biology are represented, and interactions with a diverse group of colleagues provide opportunities to broaden your thinking and make connections between different fields and scientific approaches.

The Ph.D. program in Composition at the University of Pennsylvania stresses training in the craft of composition, contemporary repertory, and theory and analysis.

Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education is a doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania committed to educational practice for scholar-practitioners, curriculum specialists, and instructional leaders.

Graduate work in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania is conducted through graduate groups formed according to different areas of study.

The Africana Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania offers three tracks of concentration in African Studies, African American Studies, or Diaspora Studies will allow students to select both a topical and an area studies sub-field

Obtain your degree from the University of Pennsylvania, one of the first universities in the country to offer a Ph.D. in Philosophy.

Demography has a long and proud tradition at the University of Pennsylvania, and students seeking to specialize in it have an unusually broad array of courses from which to pick and a relatively large number of faculty members with whom they can work.

The emphasis in the Graduate Program in Anthropology - Archaeology at University of Pennsylvania is on training candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Wharton’s Management program at University of Pennsylvania prepares students to apply rigorous social science disciplinary theory and research methods to the demands of current management and leadership challenges in the public and private sectors.

The graduate program in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania offers unique research opportunities for students to become first class scholars, teachers and expositors in the field.

The Doctoral Program (Ph.D.) in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Pennsylvania welcomes candidates in disciplines related to computer science, information processing, and computing.

Ancient History is a discipline that draws on literary, documentary, visual, archaeological, and environmental evidence, and employs a range of methodologies in combining these evidentiary categories in order to answer specific questions about the structures, processes, and thought-worlds of ancient societies. This degree is offered at the University of Pennsylvania.

Students within Cell and Molecular Biology - Developmental, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at the University of Pennsylvania address key questions in developmental biology, stem cell/niche interactions, and regenerative biology.

The Graduate Group in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania is highly distinguished and represents a broad range of work in psychology and includes an APA-approved clinical program.

Working with world-class faculty, our Earth and Environmental Science doctoral students at the University of Pennsylvania explore fundamental Earth processes and contemporary environmental problems.