PhD Programs in Texas

The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University is the largest of its kind in the United States, and perhaps in the world. At present, the department...

The University of Texas at Austin has earned an international reputation for excellence in research and teaching in the plant sciences.  Current research areas are diverse and across the breadth...

The Department of Marine Science is the academic counterpart of the Marine Science Institute.  It offers a formal teaching program at the Institute in the summer, providing courses in marine...

The Program is a consortium of faculty from several Departments of the College of Natural Science whose research focuses on Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Genomics. These faculty supervise graduate students whose...

Highly interdisciplinary, the Coastal and Marine System Science graduate program is designed to serve graduate students with diverse backgrounds in the natural and computational sciences. Ideal candidates will have backgrounds...

The Marine Biology Program is designed for students with an interest in one or more of the subdisciplines of marine biology and who wish to pursue careers in higher education,...

The PhD degree in Marine Biology is a joint degree program with Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University Galveston Campus and Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. The program is interdisciplinary, involving...

The Ph.D. in Educational Studies: Science Education is distinctive and interdisciplinary in that it is designed with three foci: (a) the field of education (including science education & educational psychology),...

The program in Environmental and Earth Sciences is designed to provide a graduate student an integrated, multidisciplinary education, nurtured through a carefully tailored degree program requiring a breadth of understanding...

Concentrations

The terminal basic research degree in Biological Sciences provides students with advanced training and research experience in biological fields ranging from ecology, evolutionary biology and genomics to cancer biology, comparative...

Attainment of a Ph.D. brings the expectation that the individual can serve as a faculty member or research scientist. Therefore, the Ph.D. candidate is generally involved in generation of original...

The Doctor of Philosophy degree in Environmental Science and Engineering is designed to provide students enrolled in the program with advanced training in research in many aspects of the environmental...

Water resources—essential to humankind—have become even more critical as the world's population expands, climate change brings new challenges and technology both enhances and depletes resources. The Water Management and Hydrologic...

The Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences graduate program has produced leaders in private industry, public services, and in academia. The prestige of our department can largely be attributed...

Increasing coastal population growth and development continues to threaten ecological and environmental systems, while people face increasing risk from natural hazards in the 21st century.  Resilient development of coasts in the...