78 PhD programmes offered by the university

Organizations and Management at Yale University focuses on the study of two things: how individuals and groups interact within organizations, and how firms interact with one another and with consumers, employees, communities, and institutions.

The PhD degree in Marketing at Yale University is a research degree that prepares students for academic positions at top research universities. Students can specialize in either the behavioral (psychology-based) or quantitative (economics, statistics and machine learning-based) approaches to marketing. 

Graduate students in Applied Physics at Yale University develop their own course of study and research with the guidance and advice of faculty members in the areas of their research interests. 

At the Yale University, we offer our gradate students a phd degree in Engineering and Applied Science.

We offer a phd degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Yale University. Students concentrating in Chinese or Japanese literature are encouraged to take at least one term course in Western literature or literary theory. 

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 Ph.D. program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University explores the dynamic fields of Latin American, Luso-Brazilian, Latinx, and Iberian studies in all their rich and diverse linguistic, literary, and cultural traditions, and adopting multiple intellectual approaches.

Most graduate students are enrolled in the Electrical Engineering  Doctoral program at the Yale University, which entails a combination of course work and original research. 

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 History of Science and Medicine Program (HSHM) is a semi-autonomous graduate track within the Department of History from Yale University.

The Genetics program of study at Yale University leading to the PhD degree emphasizes a broad approach to the fundamental principles of genetics, development and molecular biology combined with extensive research training.

Students interested in graduate degrees in performance, composition, or conducting should direct their inquiries to the Yale School of Music at the Yale University.

Our PhD Linguistics program at Yale University takes a distinctively integrative and interdisciplinary approach in investigating the systems of knowledge that comprise our linguistic competence. Students are exposed to different methodological approaches, while receiving firm grounding in the traditional domains of linguistics.

Our vision in the Medicine program at Yale University is to train rigorous, visionary and resilient physician-scientists who are committed to improving health of individuals and populations.

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

The Computer Science Department at Yale University offers a Doctoral Program leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. It typically takes four to six years to get a Ph.D. The Ph.D. program is focused on research. 

The Religious Studies program at Yale University research religions from around the world in an effort to understand the role of religion as social movement, textual tradition, sensory culture, and arbiter of value.

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

Yale University is recognized as having one of the best Chemistry programs in the U.S. We are proud of our history, faculty, laboratories, instrumentation, libraries, and relations with industry. Most of all, we are proud of our students and their research. 

Here you will find information about our research and educational missions, including the Yale Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) Graduate Program in Microbiology at Yale University.