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6 PhD programmes offered by the university

Urban Development and Governance
The PhD on Urban Development and Governance at Erasmus University Rotterdam is a 4-year flexible trajectory programme that fuses urban management with governance.
Law
Erasmus Graduate School of Law provides a pleasant, supportive and international research environment in which critical reflection, a multidisciplinary approach of the various legal disciplines and the exchange of ideas and experience between PhD researchers of the Law degree by Erasmus University Rotterdam and all other members of Erasmus School of Law play a substantial role.
Social Studies
The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam offers a four-year PhD programme leading to an internationally recognized degree.
Management
The Erasmus University Rotterdam Full-time PhD Programme in Management and Economics is a fully-funded, English-based programme focused on developing and nurturing international academic talent.
Medicine
Erasmus MC Graduate School at Erasmus University Rotterdam is the organization within Erasmus MC that educates and prepares Medicine PhD candidates to become world-class scientists.
Management
Business professionals interested in further developing their academic skills while researching their own business activity or industry can now take part in academic study and research at the same time as working. This new programme leads to a PhD degree from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (RSM).