Doctoral Degree Programs in Connecticut

A combined Ph.D. offered in conjunction with several other departments and programs; students select an area of concentration in African American studies wit…

Fields include American literature, history, the arts and material culture, philosophy, cultural theory, and the social sciences.

The department covers three subfields: archaeology; sociocultural and linguistic anthropology; and physical anthropology.

The program comprises the study and application of mathematics to problems motivated by a wide range of application domains, including data analysis, computa…

Fields include theoretical and experimental condensed-matter and materials physics, optical and laser physics, quantum science, quantum information, and nano…

The doctoral program in Architecture offers two tracks of study: History and Theory of Architecture and Ecosystems in Architectural Sciences. Admission to th…

Fields include observational and theoretical astronomy, solar and stellar astrophysics, exoplanets, the interstellar medium and star formation, galactic and …

Students pursuing the Doctor of Philosophy in Biology study related biological fields through an individual program of courses, seminars, and readings, prima…

Fields include biological and medical devices, biomaterials, biophotonics, computational medicine, imaging, tissue engineering, and systems biology.

Fields include membrane traffic and protein sorting, organelle biogenesis, cell biology of the immune response, cytoskeleton dynamics, and stem cells.

Fields range from cellular and molecular physiology to integrative medical biology, including ion channels, transporters and pumps, membrane biophysics, sign…

Fields include nanomaterials, polymers, interfacial phenomena, energy, water and air quality, environmental microbiology, carbon capture, and sustainability.

Fields include biophysical chemistry, chemical biology, inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and theoretical chem…

The Chemistry Department engages doctoral students in the science of molecules, with research spanning organic and inorganic nanomaterials, recyclable polyme…

The degree programs seek to provide an overall knowledge of Greek and Roman civilization, combined with specialized work in a number of fields within classic…

The study of literature beyond linguistic or national boundaries, including its interactions with visual and material culture, linguistics, film, psychology,…

An interdisciplinary program combining research training across biological and biomedical sciences with computational sciences, applied mathematics, statisti…

Fields include algorithms and computational complexity, artificial intelligence, data networking, databases, graphics, machine learning, programming language…

The bassoon program at the Yale School of Music offers broad training in solo repertoire, chamber music, and orchestral performance. Bassoonists also explore…

Cello instruction at the Yale School of Music is based on the belief that even the most imaginative musician is prevented from achieving the highest potentia…

The choral conducting program prepares students for careers across the full spectrum of the choral field by helping them build and refine the core skills req…