The University of Helsinki has four doctoral schools, which offer a total of 32 doctoral programmes. The schools and programmes cooperate in research and doctoral education, and the structure of doctoral education encompasses all of the University’s disciplines and doctoral students. The doctoral schools offer professional skills training to doctoral students and develop doctoral education in their fields in collaboration with the doctoral programmes and faculties in charge of them. The doctoral programmes provide doctoral students with systematic education and supervision in their fields.
Doctoral schools and programmes
Doctoral programme in wildlife biology Doctoral programme in plant sciences Doctoral programme in interdisciplinary environmental sciences Doctoral programme in sustainable use of renewable natural resources Doctoral programme in microbiology and biotechnology Doctoral Programme in food chain and health
Doctoral programme in biomedicine Doctoral programme in clinical research Doctoral programme in population health Doctoral programme in oral sciences Doctoral programme in drug research Doctoral programme in integrative life science Doctoral programme in brain & mind Doctoral programme in clinical veterinary medicine
Doctoral programme in economics Doctoral programme in gender, culture and society Doctoral programme in history and cultural heritage Doctoral programme in language studies Doctoral programme in law Doctoral programme in philosophy, arts and society Doctoral programme in political, societal and regional changes Doctoral programme in psychology, learning and communication Doctoral programme in school, education, society and culture Doctoral programme in social sciences Doctoral programme in theology and religious studies
Doctoral programme in particle physics and universe sciences Doctoral programme in geosciences Doctoral programme in atmospheric sciences Doctoral programme in chemistry and molecular sciences Doctoral programme in mathematics and statistics Doctoral programme in materials research and nanoscience Doctoral programme in computer science