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The Higher Education M.A. program is designed for students to acquire a foundational understanding of higher education upon which you can build professional practice and, if you later choose, your doctoral work. Students in the program learn to analyze, inform, and enhance practice with current scholarship and thinking about higher education. The program is enhanced by a close relationship with UA Campus Life and Student Initiatives and Academic Affairs.

Graduate with the knowledge, skills, and awareness necessary to be an effective and progressive professional in a wide range of institutional settings related to higher education

Study and conduct research related to varied higher education institutions and college students

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Courses in the 36-credit program are delivered in-person. Core coursework of the program include HED 601 (Higher Education in the U.S.), HED 611 (Intro to Statistical Methods), HED 608 (The College Student), and HED 609 (Organization and Administration). In addition to core coursework, you must complete at least five electives, preferably in higher education, but that is not required as you may enroll in elective courses outside of higher education. 

The Higher Education M.A. program prepares you for a variety of professional and academic roles. Most students, upon graduation, work on a college or university campus doing direct service with students in advising, housing, student activities, multicultural affairs, and other areas. Students may also go on to pursue doctoral work with the ultimate goal of a faculty or administration position. This degree does not necessarily prepare students for college-level teaching or K-12 administration.

For inquiries about the program, please contact  Whitney Mohr .

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The College of Education at University of Arizona has a rolling application deadline. The application fee for the education program at University of Arizona is $90. The College of Education at University of Arizona has 60 full-time faculty on staff with a 2.6:1 adjusted ratio of graduate students to faculty.

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PhD in Management

Master the field of management today. And help shape its tomorrow.

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With its outstanding faculty and leading research labs and centers, the doctoral program in management puts you on the path to a bright future in research and academics.

Admitting just a few PhD students each year, we ensure you’ll have every opportunity to work with management and organizational behavior faculty and develop the essential research and publication skills you need.

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Program essentials.

This full-time doctoral program is interdisciplinary and draws heavily from the fields of psychology, sociology, management and behavioral sciences. You’ll develop a true mastery of each topic within your area of study and build a foundation in theory, research design and methodology. And you’ll gain the teaching skills to succeed in your future academic career.

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Plan of Study

You’ll earn 36 units in your major field, 12 units in your minor field and 18 units of dissertation credit over the course of your program. A master’s project will fall in years one and two, with comprehensive exams generally taking place after year two or three. You’ll also teach one full semester-long course to undergraduate students.

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This program has given me pause to think about what type of leader I am. My classes are challenging me to stop thinking myopically about issues and to start looking for bigger trends in why certain problems arise or exist. Looking back on my career now, I am ready to stop being the leader I think an organization needs and to start being the leader that is true to my personal strengths.

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Human decision making is not only interesting, but also quite non-intuitive. I therefore spend less time talking in class, and more time engaging the student in decision tasks that demonstrate their own tendencies for decision biases.

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Doctoral Admissions Process

Applicants need to complete an online application and should fulfill minimum requirements including a 3.0 undergraduate GPA or higher, a bachelor’s degree, solid math proficiency and a GRE or GMAT score in the upper 85th percentile.

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Management PhD students receive funding to cover the cost of tuition. Students also typically receive a research assistantship stipend which starts around $20,000 per year.

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December 15: Application Deadline (Domestic and International)

Doctoral students are admitted only in the fall semester, and all application materials must be submitted online.

By focusing on research during your time in our doctoral program, you’ll be able to successfully compete in the academic job marketplace upon graduation. Our supportive faculty are known for their exceptional research productivity, and facilities like the Organizational Behavior Laboratory will be available for your research use.

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Our faculty work hard to prepare each doctoral candidate to thrive in their academic careers, and the collaboration pays off. Our doctoral alumni have landed exciting jobs around the world, including teaching and research positions at top academic institutions such as Hofstra University, the University of Washington and University of North Carolina.

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Management Faculty

The Management and Organizations Department is proud to be the home of some of the nation’s leading management faculty and researchers. Our 1:2 student-to-faculty ratio means each doctoral student has the support and mentorship to thrive and push themselves academically. Get to know our exceptional faculty and read their recent publications.

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Small class sizes. A great faculty-to-doctoral-student ratio. Incredible research resources. A stellar track record. And you.

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Ph.D. Program

In the fall of 1997, The University of Arizona was the first educational institution in the U.S. to offer a Ph.D. in American Indian Studies. 

The Ph.D. in American Indian Studies is an interdisciplinary program designed to:

• prepare graduate students for academic careers
• conduct advanced and applied scholarly research from a cross-cultural perspective
• develop theoretical and innovative theories, methodologies, and research tools appropriate for and useful to sovereign tribes
• educate students to assume leadership and policy-making roles in higher education, tribal communities, the state and nation

The Ph.D. program is designed to be completed in 3-4 years (after completing the Master's degree). Read the Ph.D. Guidelines to learn more.

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Lead, inspire, and improve education

Doctoral programs at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College prepare education leaders, scholars and innovators. Our EdD program prepares leader-practitioners to make evidence-based decisions that improve the performance of education organizations and systems. Our PhD programs empower scholars to create knowledge and insight into important questions about teaching, learning and the impact of education policy. 

Doctoral degrees that prepare you to lead and inspire, and to improve education

Through its doctoral degree programs, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College prepares education leaders, scholars and innovators with evidence-based coursework drawing on more than $60 million of annual research expenditures.

Two PhDs — in Learning, Literacies and Technologies; and Educational Policy and Evaluation — empower scholars to create knowledge and insight into important questions about teaching, learning and the impact of education policy. And an award-winning Doctor of Education degree prepares leader-practitioners to make evidence-based decisions that improve the performance of education organizations and systems.

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She Just Earned Her Doctorate at 17. Now, She’ll Go to the Prom.

Dorothy Jean Tillman II of Chicago made history as the youngest person to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health at Arizona State University.

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When Dorothy Jean Tillman II successfully defended her dissertation in November 2023 to earn her doctoral degree from Arizona State University, she couldn’t wait to share the news with her best friend.

“It was a surreal moment,” Dr. Tillman said, “because it was crazy I was doing it in the first place.”

Dr. Tillman, at only 17, became the youngest person to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health from Arizona State’s College of Health Solutions, all before she was eligible to vote. Earlier this month, Dr. Tillman, now 18, took part in Arizona State’s commencement ceremony and delivered remarks as the outstanding 2024 graduate at the College of Health Solution’s convocation.

Lesley Manson, program director for the doctorate of behavioral health at Arizona State and Dr. Tillman’s doctoral chair, said Dr. Tillman displayed extraordinary perseverance, hard work and dedication for her young age, tackling every challenge head-on.

“She can serve as a real role model,” Ms. Manson said.

Dr. Tillman, called D.J. by her family and friends, was an early bloomer. She grew up in Chicago and was home-schooled from a young age, first in a group setting through online classes, and then by her mother, Jimalita Tillman, a single parent with a background in community theater.

Dr. Tillman was part of a gifted program before transitioning to home-schooling. Jimalita Tillman continued her daughter on an accelerated track: By the time she was 8, she was taking high school classes. While most 9-year-olds were learning math and reading, Dr. Tillman was starting college online.

At the time, they lived with Jimalita Tillman’s mother, Dorothy Wright Tillman, a civil rights activist who worked alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was a Chicago alderman. Dr. Tillman is her grandmother’s namesake (hence the II at the end of Dr. Tillman’s name).

During her early college days, Dr. Tillman’s classroom was often a Starbucks in Chicago, and her days began as soon it opened, she said. Her go-to order was an iced peach green tea with lemonade.

“Around the time when kids went to lunch, we’d be closing the computer,” said Dr. Tillman, who said her discipline and focus come from her grandmother.

Because of her age, Dr. Tillman lived at home while pursuing her higher education, and most of her coursework was online — a challenge for a self-described social butterfly. “I do love meeting new people and talking to people and understanding them and how their brains work,” she said. She found other ways to stay connected with friends through after-school activities.

At 10, she earned her associate degree in psychology at the College of Lake County in Illinois. At 12, she received her Bachelor of Science in humanities at Excelsior College in New York, and at 14, she earned a Master of Science from Unity College in Maine. She chose those fields because they can help scientists “understand why people treat the environment the way they do,” she told Time for Kids in a July 2020 interview.

Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College and the author of “Gifted Children: Myths and Realities,” said that children like Dr. Tillman have a motivational intensity she calls a “rage to master.”

“One of the reasons they push themselves is they have a high, innate ability of some kind, and so learning, in whatever they are gifted in, comes easily to them and it’s very pleasurable,” she said. Schools are often not equipped for such gifted children, she added, which may lead parents to home-school their children. The trade-off, she and some experts say, is missing out on socialization and learning with children their age.

“There’s no perfect solution to kids like this,” Ms. Winner said.

Jimalita Tillman said she was sure her daughter was finished with higher education after earning her master’s degree. Dr. Tillman had just launched an organization to support Black youth in Chicago interested in STEM and the arts called the Dorothy Jeanius STEAM Leadership Institute. It was 2020, just after the beginning of the pandemic.

She was surprised when her daughter said she wanted to pursue her doctorate, and even tried to dissuade Dr. Tillman. But Dr. Tillman wanted to help young people with their mental health. She told her mother to trust her.

“I had to follow her lead,” Jimalita Tillman, 42, said.

Dr. Tillman was accepted into the management concentration at Arizona State’s College of Health Solutions, an online doctorate program. Her thesis on developing programs to reduce the stigma for college students seeking mental health services was based on a study she conducted for an in-person internship at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Dr. Tillman hopes her story resonates with girls who are talkative, outgoing “out-there kind of girls who are trying to figure themselves out but are very smart.”

“I want them to see someone who has taken that energy, sparkle and excitement and packaged it in a way that is classy and beautiful,” she said.

Dr. Tillman may now have her doctorate, but she’s also excited about teenage things — like attending a prom. On Saturday, she going as her best friend’s date to his senior dance. They’re taking an Escalade outfitted with stars on the ceiling, she said, a feature she requested and that her mother made happen.

Dr. Tillman has been focused on school and her professional pursuits, and she plans to host her institute’s summer camp again. Then, she said, she plans to take a beat and have a “fun teenage summer,” doing things she loves, discovering new hobbies and figuring herself out in the process.

“I want to focus on who I am,” she said.

ASU, UA rank in top 1% of global universities, per a recent study. Here’s why

Both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona ranked among the top 1% of schools across the world in this year’s Center for World University rankings , putting them ahead of schools like the University of Connecticut and Georgetown University.

The group compiled data from more than 20,000 institutions internationally, studying graduate employability and academics. Among the U.S. rankings, UA landed in 48th, ASU in 67th and NAU in 185th. All three schools were credited for their research influence.

That was key in developing the overall rankings according to the organization. Faculty citations and research made up 40% of the scores given.

In fiscal year 2022, ASU spent $797.2 million on research, growing by 18% from the year prior. In fiscal year 2023, UA spent even more with $954 million in investments. Both schools are in the top 4% nationally for research spending. A large portion of research funding in the state is from federal investments.

While NAU spent less at around $77.5 million in fiscal year 2023, the school has continued to expand its research budget. NAU is also likely to reach R1 status next year after the new criteria goes into effect . An R1 institution is a school recognized within the highest tier of research universities.

The Arizona Board of Regents, the body overseeing the state's public university system, sets research spending targets for each year to support what the board said is "essential to our state’s economic future" in a 2023 report . The system has surpassed those benchmarks.

This year’s rankings come at a critical point for UA, which is working to recover from a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall discovered last fall. Through a hiring freeze and several other budget cuts, school officials now expect to bring a deficit that was once $117 million down to $52 million by next year.

The fiscal headaches were blamed on a variety of issues including a decentralized budgeting model and inflation. But in the fall, UA President Robert Robbins acknowledged large investments on merit scholarships for out-of-state students and research initiatives also made an impact.

"We made a bet on spending money," Robbins said in a November meeting. "We just overshot."

In February, Robbins told The Arizona Republic the school would grow its research spending to $1 billion in the coming years. He said he didn’t regret the move but admitted the school had been using money from its reserves to fund it.

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UA was ranked among the top 0.5% of schools internationally this year, compared to ASU in the top 1% and NAU in the top 4%. The study placed UA faculty highly, at 69th globally, making it one of the school’s standout characteristics in the rankings.

Throughout ongoing budget discussions, faculty have long called on university leaders to protect its academic staff, citing it as the “engine” of the R1 land-grant university. While the school’s president and interim chief financial officers have said they too are committed to protecting UA’s academic mission, many faculty are uneasy, saying cuts on the horizon would go on to hurt students.

Hundreds of people attended a general faculty meeting last month to go over the school’s deficit. The group later passed a resolution asking the administration to stop ongoing layoffs until “detailed, transparent, and clear financial data and guidance on financial rules” is available.

Helen Rummel covers higher education for The Arizona Republic. Reach her at [email protected] . Follow her on X, formerly Twitter: @helenrummel .

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Bachelor of Science or Arts in Science

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Program details.

The College of Science is offering a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Science.  

Both degrees meet you where you are in your education and career, allowing for a flexible program where you learn the basic knowledge of the foundations of various scientific disciplines that you can easily pair with a complementary degree. The BS in Science provides additional training in foundations in science and scientific thinking. These interdisciplinary degree programs emphasize biological and physical sciences you may utilize in intersectional fields such as education, policy, law, journalism, business, development, economics, and more. They will also provide a basic STEM background for medical and health services managers, medical assistants, natural sciences managers, and entry-level science technicians.   You may choose from a variety of emphases to tailor your science education to your specific interests. Gain a foundation in science that will prepare you as an adaptive problem solver and enable you to drive social, cultural, and economic change.

As a Science BA student, you must take calculus and four semesters of another language. You must also complete five upper-division electives with at least three courses in one area. As a BS in Science student, you must take calculus and two semesters of another language. You must also complete eight electives with at least four courses in one area.  

In addition to writing, math, language, and general education requirements, you will take core courses in statistics, introductory biology, introductory chemistry and physics, as well as in one of several areas of emphasis, including earth systems and sustainability, genetics and molecular biology, biochemistry, ecology, evolution and animal behavior, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. 

●    The level of math required for the BA in Science program is MATH 113 ●    Math requirements for the BS in Science program include Math 122A, Math 122B, First-semester Calculus, or Math 125 Calculus ●    Students in both programs will take a capstone course: SCI 498

*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.

In either the BA or BS, you will take four introductory science courses, at least one from each of biology, chemistry, and physics, a statistics course, and two additional courses that are prerequisites for taking upper-division electives in one or more emphases. 

BA in Science: You may choose between PHYS 102 & 181 or PHYS 141 . For the statistics requirement, you may take Math 263 or PSY 230.

BS in Science: For the statistics requirement, you may choose to take Math 263 or PSY 230.

The curriculum for this program includes:

MCB 181 R/L: Introductory Biology I with lab

Learn about the cell and its properties, basic genetics, the immune system, and recombinant DNA technology with illustrations from bacteria, plants, animals, and humans with a lab designed to complement what students learn in the lecture portion of the course.

ECOL 182 R/L: Introductory Biology 2 with lab

Study the origin, diversity, and evolution of life, focusing on the physiology of plants, animals, and organ systems. You will explore the processes of microevolution and macroevolution, animal behavior, and the ecology of populations and communities, emphasizing biotic interactions and biogeography. The lab complements what you learn in the lecture portion of the course.

CHEM 141 & 145: General Chemistry 1

This course uses the Quantitative Approach with a lab. You will learn about the central principles of modern chemistry using a quantitative atoms-first approach, and the lab is designed to complement what you learn in the lecture portion of the course.

PHYS 102 & 181: Introductory Physics 1 with lab

Learn about the motion of particles in one and two dimensions, forces, Newton's laws, energy, momentum, angular momentum, and conservation laws, gravitation, fluids: Archimedes and Bernoulli, mechanical waves, sound, temperature, heat, heat engines, and laws of thermodynamics in this introductory course without calculus, for liberal arts students and students emphasizing the biological sciences. The lab complements what you learn in the lecture portion of the course.

PHYS 141: Introductory Mechanics

This course introduces you to Newtonian mechanics, and you will learn about the statics and dynamics of point particles, rigid bodies, and fluids. Topics include vector algebra, projectile, and circular motion; Newton's Laws, conservation of energy, collisions, and conservation of momentum; rotational dynamics and conservation of angular momentum; statics, harmonic oscillators and pendulums; gravitation and Kepler's Laws, fluid statics and dynamics.

PHYS 142: Introductory Optics and Thermodynamics

This is a freshman-level course in the fundamental properties of light and heat and related applications such as optical instruments and heat engines. It introduces you to the propagation of light and heat. Topics include temperature scales and heat, laws of thermodynamics, basic kinetic theory of gases, heat engines, elementary wave theory and sound, light as an electromagnetic wave, geometrical optics, lenses and mirrors, physical optics, diffraction and interference, and optical instruments.

Math 263: Basic Statistics or Intro to Statistics and Biostatistics

Learn to characterize data in terms of distributions, measures of center and spread, scatterplots, nonlinear models and transformations, correlation, regression, design experiments using models from probability, discrete and continuous random variables, normal distributions, sampling distributions, the central limit theorem and apply statistical inference; confidence intervals and test of significance, t procedures, inference for count data, two-way tables and chi-square procedures, inference for regression, and analysis of variance.

PSY 230: Psychological Measurement and Statistics

Learn to apply statistics to data collected in experiments and evaluate scientific hypotheses to answer questions such as “Does sleep improve memory?” and “Does having friends improve mental health?” Learn how to apply the core statistical tools in science, such as t-tests, ANOVA, regression, and Chi-square tests in controlled scientific experiments.

Earning your Bachelor of Science in Bachelor of Science or Arts in Science will build core skills, including:

• Knowledge & understanding of scientific literature
• Basic laboratory skills
• Communication of scientific knowledge
• Scientific reasoning skills
• Written & oral skills
• Application of scientific reasoning
• Foundational knowledge in online group projects
• Communications
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University of Arizona College of Science Galileo Circle Scholarship

Congratulations to LPL's 2024 Galileo Circle Scholarship recipients: Namya Baijal, Maizey Benner, Galen Bergsten, Dingshan Deng, Mackenzie Mills, Samantha Moruzzi, Iunn Ong, and Lucas Smith.

Galileo Circle Scholarships are awarded to the University of Arizona's finest science students and represent the tremendous breadth of research interests in the University of Arizona College of Science . The scholarships are supported through the generous donations of Galileo Circle members. Galileo Circle Scholars receive $1,000 and the opportunity to introduce themselves and their research to the Galileo Circle patrons.

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Seeks to understand how impacts between planetary bodies shape their surface and interiors, with a focus on asteroids.

Investigating the thermodynamic origins and evolution of phosphorus- and sulfur- bearing minerals in aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrites.

Uses large-scale survey data to study populations of extrasolar planets, including those analogous to Earth, to learn how planets form and evolve throughout the Galaxy.

Dingshan Deng Advisor: Ilaria Pascucci

Studies star and planetary formation, including protoplanetary disks, which are the birthplaces of the planets around the young stars.

Mackenzie Mills Advisor: Alfred McEwen

Using spacecraft data to derive scientific conclusions from planetary surfaces, characterizing Martian geomorphology and working for an understanding of influence of Martian subsurface features on spatial distributions of surface features.

Samantha Moruzzi Advisor: Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna

Studying Pluto’s interior through its fractures and impacts, and how Earth analogs and terrestrial methods can aid in our investigations.

Iunn Ong Advisor: Jessica Barnes

Using microscopy techniques to analyze Bennu samples and understand the extent of aqueous and thermal alteration that takes place on asteroids.

Lucas Smith Advisor: Pierre Haenecour

Identifying and investigating presolar stardust grains within meteorites that have experienced aqueous processing, which informs our understanding of conditions that existed during Solar System formation.

Doctorate in Educational Administration and Foundations - Higher Education Administration (online)

Within the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations, the Higher Education Administration concentration is available to candidates who hold a master's degree, and have experience (teaching, administrative, or staff) in a higher education setting.

The higher education concentration allows experienced educators and administrators to advance their knowledge in ways that will further their careers and enable them to make further contributions to higher education as well as other types of organizations. This concentration culminates in a doctor of philosophy degree.

Program Features

• Majority of candidates are part-time students with full-time jobs
• Online format
• Students have eight years to complete the degree
• The many issues affecting higher education, organization and administrative theory, as well as higher education finance, law, governance, research methodology, assessment, and history.
• Identifying and utilizing appropriate technologies
• Impact of internationalization on higher education
• Development of high-level critical thinking skills
• Understanding of the roles and relationships among a college or university's many constituents
• How to promote, support, and lead diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

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Doctoral degree programs at NAU

In our doctoral programs, you will deepen your expertise and earn the credentials you need to become a recognized scholar, researcher, or practitioner in industries ranging from education to forestry . Climb to new heights in your chosen field with a Northern Arizona University doctoral degree.

Why choose an NAU doctoral program?

At NAU, we work to develop interdisciplinary doctoral programs that allow you to not just research intensively in one field, but to broaden your understanding of your work through the lens of other subject areas. You’ll also build lifelong relationships with our experienced, game-changing faculty. Find your degree below, and start your future today.

List of doctoral programs by interest area

For more information on specific program requirements, please see the academic catalog ., education and behavioral health.

Clinical Psychology (PsyD) Combined Counseling/School Psychology (PhD) Curriculum and Instruction (PhD) Educational Leadership- K-12 Administration (EdD) Educational Leadership – Community College / Higher Education Administration (EdD)

Engineering

Applied Physics and Material Sciences (PhD) Bioengineering (PhD) Civil and Environmental Engineering (PhD) Mechanical Engineering (PhD)

Health and Nursing

Interdisciplinary Health (PhD) Nursing Practice (DNP) Occupational Therapy (OTD) Physical Therapy- Entry Level (DPT)

Doctor of Medical Science Program (DMSc)

Applied Linguistics (PhD)

IT and computing

Informatics and Computing (PhD)

Natural sciences

Astronomy and Planetary Science (PhD) Biology (PhD) Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability (PhD) Forest Science (PhD)

Social sciences

Political Science (PhD)

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