76 PhD programmes offered by the university

Doctoral studies in Molecular Life Sciences at Uppsala University will be carried out at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.

Information Studies is a broad field and in the programme at Uppsala University, the topics of research range from archival studies to information research, library science, museum and cultural heritage studies and scholarly communication to digital humanities research. 

Doctoral education in Biology at Uppsala University is offered at the Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC, Department of Ecology and Genetics and Department of Organismal Biology) and Uppsala Biomedical Centre (BMC, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology).

Chemistry concerns aspects of elements and chemical compounds. At Uppsala University, the subject is dynamic and wide in scope, with possible interdisciplinary connections and research collaborations with (for example) biosciences, physics, materials science, medicine, pharmacy and education development.

The Linguistics group at Uppsala University has a broad research profile. It studies phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse in relation to a variety of languages.

In this subject, we study human beings and societies in prehistorical and early historical times through the material remains they have left behind. Archaeology at Uppsala University is global and our researchers work on four continents.

The Department of Government's research at Uppsala University is characterised by methodological diversity and covers all major sub-areas of Political Science.

If you want to do research in mathematics, a PhD is a first step in the right direction. As a PhD student in Mathematics at Uppsala University, you have the possibility to get in touch with the most distinguished and modern mathematical research in the world.

At the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Uppsala University, we conduct frontline research with a focus on how specific substances can be developed into drugs.

The Department of Medical Sciences at Uppsala University performs clinical and pre-clinical research in a large number of specialties.

The History of Science and Ideas programme offered by Uppsala University develops advanced research expertise in the historical development of scientific, intellectual, and cultural ideas within global and interdisciplinary contexts.

Curriculum Studies as a field of research and area of knowledge at Uppsala University deals with matters relating to the content of education and teaching.

Research in the field of Latin at Uppsala University deals with texts from the entire period of the long and varied history of the Latin language, with a clear focus on ancient Latin.

The PhD studies in both Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University are part of the activities supported by the Faculty of Arts.

The Department of Statistics at Uppsala University educates and conducts research in statistics. We work both with methodological questions, as well as with applications in a wide range of fields.

The Department of Women's and Children's Health (WCH) at Uppsala University provides graduate and postgraduate education for students of all levels and in all health-related professions.

The Civil Engineering and Built Environment programme offered by Uppsala University develops advanced research expertise in the design, construction, and management of sustainable built environments and infrastructure systems.

Sociology of Education at Uppsala University explores education - in the broad sense of the word - as a social phenomenon.

The Department of Psychology at Uppsala University has five divisions, each responsible for the research and the educational quality within one or several closely related psychological fields.

Within the framework of Greek and Byzantine Studies texts written in Greek from about 700 BCE up until the 15th century are studied. Methodologically, a number of specializations are represented at Uppsala University, such as textual criticism, literary studies, language history and codicology.