Short description of the programmes:

The 68 PhD programmes offered at present are part of 6 larger units known as Doctoral Schools. Proof of the exceptionally high standard of education is the ever-growing interest in our programmes. Our Faculty occupies a leading position in almost all fields, and is in many cases the only institution providing a particular programme not only within Hungary, but throughout Eastern Europe, and thus accounts for the development of specialists within that field in the whole region. Foreign students take part in the doctoral programmes via a tutorial system. During their PhD studies students have to collect 180 credits. The programmes are divided into three larger modules. The aims of the courses are to immerse students in their specialised field of study, to endow them with the research methodology needed for an academic career, and to develop their qualities as teachers and researchers. By fulfilling the publication requirements students become part of Hungarian scientific life. Since the use of international reference literature is a requirement, our students are expected to be proficient in at least one foreign language.

To obtain a PhD, students have to take a successful comprehensive exam at the end of their studies and defend their dissertation in a public debate.

The international agreements between universities and the diverse international academic relations of the supervising teachers provide outstanding students with the opportunity to partake in foreign research programmes or to complete their doctoral studies in the so-called Cotutelle form.

The doctoral schools frequently organise student conferences which serve as excellent forums for talented students to present the results of their independent research and to develop the academic skills indispensable for a future scientist.

The students work on their dissertation topic under the guidance of an established member of Hungarian academic life. In these scientific workshops they become acquainted with the latest international developments in their field of study (secondary literature, methodology, research).

Feedback proves that those who have obtained a PhD at our Faculty are highly trained academics with a profound knowledge of their subject areas, well-equipped to continue their research both in Hungary and abroad.

Doctoral School of Literary Studies

• American Studies
• Comparative Literary Studies
• Folklore and Literature of Uralic Peoples
• French Literature from the Enlightenment to the Present
• French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
• General Literary Studies
• German Literary Studies
• Hungarian Renaissance
• Hungarian Baroque Literature
• Hungarian and European Enlightenment
• Hungarian Literary History and Theory in the First Half of the 20th Century: the Age of the Nyugat Journal
• Hungarian Literature since World War II
  
• Italian Literary and Cultural Studies
• Library Science
• Renaissance and Baroque English Literature
• Modern English and American Literature
• Portuguese Literatures: History of Prose Fiction
• Romanticism
• Russian Literature and Culture between East and West
• Russian Literature and Literary Studies
• Scandinavian Studies
• Slavic Literatures
• Textual Analysis of Contemporary Latin-American Prose Fiction

Doctoral school of Linguistics

• Ancient Studies
• Applied Linguistics
• Arabic Studies
• Cultural Linguistics
• English Linguistics
• German Linguistics
• Hungarian Linguistics
• Iranian Studies
• Japanese Philology
• Mongolian Linguistics
• Romance Studies
• Russian Linguistics
• Sinology
• Slavic Linguistics
• Theoretical Linguistics
• Translation Studies
• Turkic Studies
• Uralic Languages and Linguistics

Doctoral School of History

• Assyriology and Hebrew-Judaic Studies
• Egyptology
• European Historiography and Social Science
• Economic and Social History
• Early Modern Hungarian History
• Medieval Hungarian History
• Medieval and Early Modern World History
• Cultural History
• History of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
• Ancient History
• Archaeology
• Auxiliary Sciences of History
• Modern and Contemporary Hungarian History
• Modern and Contemporary World History
• 19th and 20th Century European History

Doctoral School of Philosophy

• Analytic Philosophy
• Ancient Western Philosophy
• Aesthetics
• Phenomenology
• Film, Media and Culture Theory
• Hermeneutics
• Logic
• Political Philosophy
• History of Modern Philosophy

Doctoral School of Ethnography

• European Ethnology
• Hungarian and Comparative Folkloristics

Doctoral School of Art History

• Art History