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Across the United Kingdom, 20 universities offer 66 PhD programs — most run 4–6 years. The list starts with courses at University of Edinburgh, University of Bath and The Queen's University Belfast.
London School of Jewish Studies — The PhD in Jewish Education at the London School of Jewish Studies is designed to provide an in-depth exploration of pedagogical theories, practices, and policies within...
Imperial College School of Medicine
University of Edinburgh — The Doctor of Medicine (MD) is a higher degree for clinically qualified staff, normally during postgraduate medical training. The MD thesis must deal with one or more sub...
University of Bath — Doctoral research at the University of Bath lets you select a research programme and choose how you want to study. You can find a supervisor and develop your own project,...
The Queen's University Belfast — The PhD in Accounting at The Queen's University Belfast offers an in-depth exploration of both theoretical and practical aspects of accounting. The program is designed to...
University of Strathclyde — The PhD in Accounting & Finance at the University of Strathclyde is designed for students who aspire to conduct advanced research in the fields of accounting and finance....
Brunel University Uxbridge — Brunel University Uxbridge lists fully-funded PhD studentships. Studentships are available for doctoral research and are advertised through Brunel University Uxbridge’s f...
Brunel University Uxbridge — Brunel University Uxbridge offers a set of PhD topics for research students, listed under subject filters including Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Aerospace Engineer...
Aston University — The PhD program in 3D printing of ocular films for the treatment of ocular diseases of the anterior segment explores cutting-edge technologies in biomedical engineering a...
Aston University
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College — Royal Holloway and Bedford New College conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science at Royal Holloway to Dr Rupert Whitaker. The statement credits him with being a tenacious a...
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College — Royal Holloway and Bedford New College offers an English PhD in the Department of English, with research across the full chronological and specialist range of English lit...
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College — The Geography PhD at Royal Holloway focuses on research in areas including Quaternary science, social, cultural, and historical geography, the GeoHumanities, geopolitics...
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College — The Law PhD at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College involves research in Law within the Department of Law and Criminology. Research activities are organised through Dep...
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College — Royal Holloway and Bedford New College offers a Management PhD. Students conduct research through Royal Holloway’s specialist themes and subject groups, working within th...
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College — The Mathematics PhD at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College supports research in areas including Algebra, Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Number Theory, Quan...
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College — Royal Holloway and Bedford New College offers a Music PhD for postgraduate research in a range of musical disciplines, including historical musicology, theory and analysi...
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College — Royal Holloway and Bedford New College offers a Psychology PhD in the Department of Psychology. The department describes its research community as covering cognitive and...
University of Wales, Bangor — Biology With Biotechnology BSc (Hons) at Bangor University. The course page states that this course is available in Clearing. The page encourages applicants who have resu...
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London — The Doctoral School offer holders page at SOAS, University of London explains how accepted students prepare for starting their course. It directs students to find their p...
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London — The Law Research Degree (PhD) programme at SOAS accepts candidates who want to undertake a significant and original research project leading to a PhD in Law. Students stu...
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London — The MPhil/PhD in African Languages and Cultures at SOAS is a research degree in the broad general area of African studies. Students study research topics that may include...
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London — The PhD African Languages and Cultures provides supervision for research leading to MPhil and PhD degrees within the broad general area of African studies. Students work...
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London — The PhD Chinese and Inner Asian Studies at SOAS is a research and thesis programme supervised by the China and Inner Asia Department. Students study Chinese and Inner Asi...
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9 of these universities hold a QS World position, from #34 (University of Edinburgh) to #511 (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London); they are listed first, in that order. The rest are ordered by research impact. University of Edinburgh has the largest research record in this group, with 26,755,710 citations and an h-index of 1,342. 2 universities have neither a QS position nor a research record yet and appear at the end, marked "Not yet ranked".
The most common subjects are Professional Accounting & Finance (5), Education (5), Science (4) and Psychology (3). The usual length is 4–6 years and 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time. 95% are full-time. Start dates lean to Fall (87% of courses with a stated intake) and Spring (19% of courses with a stated intake). School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London offers the widest choice, with 22 of these courses.
University of Edinburgh (QS World #34), University of Bath (QS World #132) and The Queen's University Belfast (QS World #199) lead this list. QS World positions come first; the rest are ranked by research impact.
Most listed courses run 4–6 years, with 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time the next most common.
Fall is the main intake — 87% of courses with a stated start date begin then, and Spring is the second.
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with 22, ahead of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (8).
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