PhD Programs in North Carolina

The Department of Biology and Marine Biology offers a program of study and research leading to the doctor of philosophy in marine biology. The program provides students with a broad...

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Bridging traditional and modern approaches to study the role of insects in natural and managed ecosystems. Globally-ranked, the entomology graduate program in CALS offers a challenging curriculum, one-on-one research experiences...

Our mission is to be the premier parks, recreation and tourism management doctoral program in the nation by developing scholars of distinction who possess the potential to significantly impact both...

The Integrated Coastal Sciences, Ph.D. program is a research-intensive doctoral degree program at ECU that educates students to resolve complex problems facing coastal systems, using multidisciplinary solutions that integrate across...

The Ph.D. program in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology allows doctoral students to pursue an advanced degree in a wide variety of subjects involving fisheries and wildlife, including topics that overlap...

Our Forestry and Environmental Resources doctoral program encourages candidates to explore a variety of advanced challenges faced in a variety of fields today, including highly-focused scientific inquiry into basic cellular...

Identifying policy solutions to environmental challenges requires a command of social sciences, alongside topical knowledge and understanding of relevant policy processes. Duke's University Program in Environmental Policy (UPEP) PhD is...

Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOS) at the Nicholas School offers a PhD in four broad research areas of geoscience: Earth-surface sciences focus on processes that shape and change landscapes and environments--the interactions between life,...

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The graduate program in Environment (ENV) offers students opportunities to work with faculty who specialize in an array of disciplines within the physical, chemical, biological, and social sciences, as well as...

The Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences offers MS and PhD in Marine Science. The oceans, atmosphere and landscape all influence one another. Faculty and researchers in our department...

Duke’s University Program in Ecology is one of the foremost in the world. It comprises faculty and students from across campus, including from the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Departments of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology,...

The PhD in Marine Science & Conservation (MSC) is designed to ensure that students receive detailed training in a particular discipline of marine natural or social science, while being exposed to...

We offer three graduate degrees in plant biology: a doctorate (Ph.D.), a thesis master’s degree (M.S.), and a non-thesis master’s degree (M.R.). The plant biology graduate faculty is a diverse, active, collegial, and well-funded group...

Our mission is to understand and provide solutions to the most challenging resource issues facing our planet. We explore systems on our planet through basic research and applied solutions. As...

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The underlying mechanisms that control life on earth are only now being revealed. Clearly, great discoveries await and the next generation of life scientists need training in a diverse set...