18 PhD programmes in Social Sciences in Austria
Psychology
University of Vienna offers the Psychology programme.
Social and Economic Sciences
The doctoral programme in Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna develops the ability to carry out independent scientific work as well as to train and promote young scientists in the field of social and economic sciences with reference to natural resources and life sciences.
Business, Economics and Statistics
The doctoral/PhD programme in Business, Economics and Statistics serves to prepare doctoral candidates for scientific work in the field of the doctoral research. University of Vienna offers the Business, Economics and Statistics programme.
Cognitive Science
The program in Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU) offers specialization in the fields of social cognition, cognitive development, and formal and biological models of perception and learning.
Business and Socioeconomic Sciences
Our PhD in Business and Socioeconomic Sciences prepares candidates to contribute to innovative research. Based on the research orientation of our four departments, candidates can focus their studies on the following: Information Systems; Marketing; Sustainable Development; Public Governance; Service Management; Tourism; Leisure Science; Quality of Life, Well-being & Environmental Psychology.
Economics
The aim of the PhD program in Economics at Central European University (CEU) is to help you develop your own research agenda as quickly as possible and get you working on it full time. This means you must have a solid knowledge of MA-level core subjects (micro-, macroeconomics and econometrics) from your previous program.
Psychotherapy Science
The doctoral programme in Psychotherapy Science at Sigmund Freud University can only be started at the beginning of the winter and summer semester.
Social and Economic Sciences
The Social and Economic Sciences doctoral programme at Vienna University of Technology is assessed in the viva voce, a general examination by a committee involving defence of the dissertation by the candidate.
Techno-Economics
In the Doctoral School of Techno-Economics at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), you conduct research on a high international standard.
Political Science - Comparative and International Political Economy
The PhD Political Science - Comparative and International Political Economy at Central European University (CEU) focuses primarily on questions relating to the interconnectedness of social, political and economic realms with regards to domestic, comparative, and international economy.
Social Sciences and Economics
University of Klagenfurt offers the Social Sciences and Economics programme. The cross-curricular courses complement the subject-specific teaching events and thus expand the range of doctoral-level classes.
Social Sciences
The doctoral programme in Social Sciences at the University of Vienna serves to prepare doctoral candidates for academic work in their field of doctoral research as well as to educate and promote early stage researchers. University of Vienna offers the Social Sciences programme.
Political Science - International Relations
The PhD program in Political Science - International Relations at Central European University (CEU) reflects the existing traditions of IR scholarship in North America, the UK, and Western Europe especially. The department offers concentrations in, and faculty expertise on, Security Studies, International Political Economy and IR theory.
Political Science - Public Policy
The PhD program in Political Science - Public Policy at Central European University (CEU) is designed for scholars interested in conducting research on the cause, function, nature and outcome of public policy.
Economics and Statistics
The work of graduates of the PhD Program in Economics and Statistics at University of Innsbruck primarily consists of theoretical and empirical research.
Sociology and Social Anthropology
The doctoral program in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University (CEU) is to offer doctoral-level education matching the highest international standards in the fields of Sociology and Social Anthropology for prospective scholars and teachers.
Comparative Gender Studies
The PhD program in Comparative Gender Studies at Central European University (CEU) is for students with substantial MA-level background in gender studies theory and methodologies who wish to specialize in interdisciplinary research and teaching in an academic setting.
Political Science - Political Theory
The PhD program in Political Science - Political Theory at Central European University (CEU) aims to bring the Philosophy Department into closer cooperation with the Doctoral School in training doctoral students and also mentoring junior scholars.