55 PhD programmes offered by the university

The Nursing program of Emory University allows you to be at the forefront of advancing nursing science. With a PhD, nurses can contribute to the profession through: research, creating new nursing frameworks or theories, leading systems changes, and impacting policy.

The Juridical Science program of Emory University is designed for those seeking careers as teachers and scholars of the law.

Students in Emory University's doctoral program in Information Systems and Operations Management may pursue a track in either Information Systems (IS) or Operations Management (OM).

As an interdisciplinary graduate program, the African American Studies (AAS) Ph.D. Program at Emory University—the first program of its kind in the U.S. Southeast—is a highly selective course of study combining the expertise of an esteemed group of more than 50 core and affiliated graduate faculty.

The Neuroscience program of Emory University is an interdisciplinary program, spanning many departments and priding itself on a collaborative atmosphere encouraging excellence. Our faculty and students have a broad scope of research interests within neuroscience, ranging from molecular to cellular to behavioral neuroscience.

The Organization and Management program of Emory University prepares students for research and teaching careers in one of these major areas: organization theory, economic sociology, and organizational behavior.

Emory University’s Physics Department focuses on integrating emergent scientific research with innovative pedagogical training and community outreach.

Do you want to study the assessment, etiology, pathophysiology, developmental pathways or treatment of psychopathology? This Clinical Psychology at Emory University may be for you.

Do you want to study the origins and development of the human mind and brain? If so, then this Developmental Science program at Emory University is for you.

The Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis program at Emory University is part of the broader Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Emory that offers research intensive training programs leading the to the PhD degree. 

Graduate Students in the Cognitive and Computational Sciences (CCS) concentration at Emory University seek to understand the processes that underlie human perception, learning, memory, emotion, conceptual representation, and language.

Graduate Students in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience (BSN) at Emory University seek to better understand neural systems and behavior through the study of evolution, development, and the proximate causes of behavior in genes, hormones, memory, and cognition.

The History Department at Emory University offers a selective, mid-sized Ph.D. program that combines training in a number of geographic and chronological areas with a stress on cross- cutting comparative, thematic, and interdisciplinary study.

The Department of Mathematics at Emory University offers a PhD in Mathematics intended for students with an undergraduate mathematics degree or equivalent experience.

The doctoral program in Accounting at Emory University examines the production and use of information through the lens of theories adapted from the social sciences, especially economics and psychology.

Family and Emergency Nurse Practitioner is a rigorous program at Emory University built on caring for patients of all ages with primary care, urgent and emergent health care needs, this program prepares nurses for the fast-paced emergency care settings .

The PhD in Health Services Research and Health Policy is offered through Emory University’s Laney Graduate School.

Islamic Civilizations Studies (ICIVS) at Emory University is a unique Ph.D. program that investigates Islamic civilizations through trans-regional and multidisciplinary perspectives.

The Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology program of Emory University combines these complementary disciplines, into an interdisciplinary doctoral training program of the highest caliber.

Innovative science. Meaningful outreach. Modern pedagogy. Donuts on Fridays. One of these things is not like the others. All of them belong. At the Chemistry program of Emory University, we know that great research and teaching takes place in the context of an engaged community.