Doctoral Degree
Doctoral study at the University of Bern
Are you interested in doing some independent research work and would like to start a doctorate at the University of Bern?
As a university with eight faculties offering a full range of courses and an institution with a real emphasis on research, the University of Bern offers early career researchers attractive structures for a promising doctorate.
You can either take the doctorate within a graduate school or as part of a doctoral degree program, or you can even take a traditional individual doctorate. Graduate schools and doctoral degree programs are arranged on an interdisciplinary and/or interuniversity basis in many cases. In addition to research-related training and intensive support, these also offer excellent opportunities for networking within the academic community.
An A-Z of doctoral subjects
- Archaeology
- Business Administration
- Cellular and Biomedical Sciences Med./Nat./Vet.
- Central Asian Studies
- Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Classical Philology (special qualification in Greek or Latin)
- Old Catholic Theology
- Climate Sciences
- Cognition, Learning and Memory
- Communication and Media Studies
- Dental Medicine
- German Language
- German Language and Literature
- German Literature
- Digital Humanities
- Eastern European Studies
- Ecology and Evolution
- Economic Globalisation and Integration
- Earth Sciences
- Education
- Protestant Theology
- History
- Gender Studies
- Geography
- Geography and Sustainable Development
- Global Studies
- Health Sciences hum/med
- Human Medicine
- Computer Sciences
- Interdiciplinary Cultural Studies ICS
- Islamic Studies and Oriental Literature
- Italian Linguistics and Literature
- Judaism
- Social Sciences
- Art History
- Language and Society
- Languages and Literatures in English
- Linguistics
- Linguistique/Littérature françaises
- Mathematics
- Molecular Life Sciences
- Musicology
- Old Catholic Theology
- Philosophy
- Physics/Astronomy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Administration
- Law
- Religious Studies theol.
- Science of Religion Human.
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Social Anthropology
- Sociology
- Spanish Linguistics and Literature
- Sport Science
- Statistics
- Criminal Justice
- Theater and Dance Studies
- Administrative Science
- Economics
- Dental Medicine
- Veterinary Medicine