65 PhD programmes: Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Social and Juridical Sciences, UAB Barcelona (Spain)

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

Sciences ,

Social Sciences and Law,

Technological Sciences,

  • Computer Science,
  • Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering,
  • Law, Science and Technologies (LAST-JD),

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