The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University offers Ph.Ds in a wide range of doctoral programs. Doctoral candidates can focus on Computational Biology, Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering and a host of different disciplines. CMU projects that it takes about five or six years to complete a Ph.D. The candidate works within the doctoral program of the subject selected and is expected to choose an adviser early in the first year of research. Ph.D. students generally enter the program with a perfect GPA--many of the Ph.D. programs are "direct," meaning the student applies and is accepted directly from undergraduate school.
Carnegie Mellon University,
School of Computer Science
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891
412-268-8525
cs.cmu.edu/prospectivestudents/doctoral/index.html
The London School of Economics offers a Ph.D. in Law that takes three to four years to complete and up to six years for a part time student to fulfill requirements. The program supports the development of a thesis and original research in legal, or interdisciplinary, projects that make a contribution to the field. Some current research areas include Property Law, Cultural Property and Heritage, International Trade/World Trade Organization, Environmental Law, and Biotechnology, among many others. Admission is highly selective and first-year Ph.D. students are encouraged to live in or near London. The Ph.D. program awards a limited number of competitive scholarships, that cover three years of study and a living stipend, to both UK and international doctoral students.
Graduate Admissions,
The London School of Economics and Political Science,
PO Box 13420,
Houghton Street, London,
WC2A 2AR, United Kingdom
011-44-020-7955-7160
lse.ac.uk/collections/law/programmes/programmes-firstpage.htm
The University of California Berkeley offers a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies that does not follow the research-only program structure of many other Ph.D. fields. Doctoral candidates are required to take a minimum of eight graduate seminars or upper division courses for a letter grade, including at least one seminar in Buddhist Art History. A successful Ph.D. candidate is expected to have mastered at least two Asian languages, choosing from among Chinese, Japanese, Pali, Newari, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Southeast Asian Languages. Students must take qualifying exams, produce a dissertation and submit to an oral defense of the dissertation before a doctoral degree is awarded. In addition, students need at least two semesters as graduate student instructors before finishing the program.
Center for Buddhist Studies
University of California, Berkeley
2223 Fulton Street, Room 512
Berkeley, CA 94720-2318
510.643.5104
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