PhD (Philosophy Doctorate) Programs in McMaster University

The PhD program in Business Administration at DeGroote offers students the opportunity to study and conduct leading-edge research with some of the top researchers in their fields. Students develop the theoretical and met...

The PhD program in Health & Society will apply an interdisciplinary, comparative, and critical lens to analyzing and understanding health as a social and cultural process, construct, and outcome. It is the combinatio...

The program is designed to train intellectual leaders in the field who will make seminal contributions to policy understanding and practice. The curriculum provides theory and empirical methods for framing, investigating...

A research intensive program with the goal of equipping the graduates with research methods skills that enable them to “push the boundaries of knowledge” relevant to improving clinical practice (including medical educati...

The programs offered by the Department of History emphasize the modern world in a global framework. A range of approaches to history, from poltical and cultural through social and intellectual, to environment and medicin...

Areas of Research Animal behaviour Cognition and perception Developmental psychology Evolution and social behaviour Systems and behavioural neuroscience View Program Site  View Graduate Calendar

This program combines exploration of literatures in English from all periods, with the study of critical theory and cultural studies. Our vibrant graduate studies community fosters interdisciplinary exchange and prioriti...

Materials Science & Engineering is about unravelling the fundamental principles governing the behaviour of materials to enable technologies across a broad range of applications. This includes performance functionalit...

The PhD in Rehabilitation Science provides training to develop rehabilitation scientists who will advance rehabilitation research and transfer new knowledge into practice and policy. This competency-based program educate...

The PhD program in Social Gerontology will apply an interdisciplinary, comparative, and critical lens to analysing and understanding aging as a social and cultural process, construct, and outcome. It is the combination o...