PhD programmes: The UAB has over 65 PhD programmes regulated by Royal Decree 99/2011, on PhD studies, and these are categorised in 5 areas of interest: Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Social and Juridical Sciences, Health Sciences and Engineering.
If you are interested in joining one of our PhD programmes or would like further information, please contact the relevant programme. Contact details, together with other general information, are on the first page of each programme’s website.
Here you will find general information on the programme: career options, admissions procedure and calendar, lines of research, thesis supervisors, activities, monitoring, enrolment and quality.
The UAB departments are units in charge of organising and developing the activities of the teaching and research staff. Each department corresponds to a field of knowledge and is divided into even more specific areas. The UAB has over sixty departments which cover all disciplines of knowledge.
- Arts and Humanities
- Art History and Musicology,
- Catalan Language and Literature and Theatre Studies ,
- Classical Archaeology ,
- Cognitive Science and Language ,
- Comparative, Political and Social History,
- Cultures in Contact in the Mediterranean,
- English Studies ,
- History of Science ,
- Literary Theory and Comparative Literature,
- Philosophy,
- Prehistoric Archaeology ,
- Psychology of Communications and Change,
- Romance Languages and Cultures,
- Spanish Studies,
- Translation and Intercultural Studies,
Health Sciences
- Advanced Immunology,
- Animal Medicine and Health,
- Animal Production,
- Aquaculture,
- Clinical and Health Psychology,
- Food Science,
- Health and Sports Psychology,
- Medicine ,
- Methodology of Biomedical Research and Public Health,
- Neurosciences,
- Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
- Pharmacology,
- Psychiatry,
- Psychology of Communications and Change ,
- Surgery and Morphological Sciences,
Sciences ,
- Aquaculture ,
- Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine ,
- Biodiversity,
- Biotechnology,
- Cellular Biology,
- Chemistry,
- Electrochemistry. Science and Technology ,
- Environmental Science and Technology,
- Genetics ,
- Geology,
- History of Science ,
- Law, Science and Technologies (LAST-JD),
- Materials Science ,
- Mathematics,
- Microbiology ,
- Physics,
- Plant Biology and Biotechnology,
- Terrestrial Ecology,
Social Sciences and Law,
- Applied Economics,
- Audiovisual Communication and Advertising,
- Communication and Journalism,
- Demography,
- Economic Analysis,
- Economics, Management and Organization (Business Economics),
- Education,
- Educational Psychology,
- Entrepreneurship and Management ,
- Gender Study: Culture, Societies and Policies,
- Geography,
- Human Security and Global Law,
- Law ,
- Law, Science and Technologies (LAST-JD),
- Media, Communication and Culture,
- Person and Society in the Contemporary World ,
- Politics, Policies and International Relations,
- Psychology of Communications and Change ,
- Social and Cultural Anthropology ,
- Sociology ,
Technological Sciences,
- Computer Science,
- Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering,
- Law, Science and Technologies (LAST-JD),
