PhD programmes
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The ELTE Faculty of Humanities offers a wide range of academic disciplines and numerous scholarship opportunities across nearly 70 PhD programs.

Doctoral School of Philosophy

Descriptions, curriculum plans, and other details are available on the Doctoral School of Philosophy website.

  • Aesthetics (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • Analytic Philosophy

  • Ancient and Medieval Philosophy 

  • Art History

  • Ethics and Political Philosophy 

  • Film, Media and Culture Theory 

  • Hermeneutics 

  • Intercultural Philosophy 

  • Logic and Philosophy of Science 

  • Modern Philosophy 

  • Phenomenology 

  • Religious Studies 

Doctoral School of Literary

Descriptions, curriculum plans, and other details are available on the Doctoral School of Literary website.

  • American Studies 

  • Comparative Literature

  • Dutch and Scandinavian Studies

  • French Literature

  • Hungarian and Comparative Folklore (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • Hungarian Literature after 1945 (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • Hungarian Modernism (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • Italian Literary and Cultural Studies

  • Library and Information Science

  • Literary Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Culture

  • Modern English and American Literature and Culture

  • Romanticism

  • Russian Literature and Literary Studies: a Comparative Approach

  • Slavic Literatures

  • Spanish and Portuguese Literatures

  • Studies in German Literatures and Cultures

  • The Folklore and Literature of the Uralic Peoples

  • The Hungarian and European Enlightenment (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • The Hungarian and European Renaissance (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • The Hungarian Baroque (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • Theatre Studies

Doctoral School of Linguistics

Descriptions, curriculum plans, and other details are available on the Doctoral School of Linguistics website.

  • Ancient Studies

  • Applied Linguistics

  • Arabic Studies

  • Buddhist Philology

  • English Linguistics

  • German Linguistics 

  • Hungarian Linguistics (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • Indian Studies

  • Intercultural Linguistics

  • Iranian Studies 

  • Japanese Studies

  • Korean Studies 

  • Language Pedagogy and English Applied Linguistics

  • Mongolian Studies

  • Romance Studies

  • Russian Linguistics

  • Sinology

  • Slavic Linguistics

  • Theoretical Linguistics

  • Translation Studies (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)

  • Turkic Studies

  • Uralic Languages and Linguistics 

 

Doctoral School of History

Descriptions, curriculum plans, and other details are available on the Doctoral School of History website.

  • Ancient History 
  • Archaeology
  • Assyriology and Hebrew-Judaic Studies
  • Atelier- Interdisciplinary History 
  • Auxiliary Sciences of History (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)
  • Cultural History (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)
  • Early Modern Hungarian History (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)
  • East-, East Central Europe and Russian Studies 
  • Economic and Social History 
  • Egyptology 
  • European Ethnology
  • Medieval and Early Modern World History 
  • Medieval Hungarian History (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)
  • Modern and Contemporary World History 
  • Modern Hungarian History (only with high level Hungarian knowledge)