Graduate Schools

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam provides complete English-taught research training programmes for outstanding students from all over the world. These programmes have been brought together in a number of Graduate Schools.

• ABRI Graduate School of Business Research delivers PhD training in management, organization and business studies and offers a joint-degree Research Master “Business in Society”.
• ACTA Graduate School of Dentistry delivers PhD training in both clinical and basic dental research, focussing on the two main research programs 'Oral Infections and Inflammation' and 'Oral Regenerative Medicine'.
• Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School is to support a new generation of excellent research professionals during their PhD trajectory and strives to be a well-known and appreciated partner for PhD candidates and their supervisors.
• Graduate School of Behavioral & Movement Sciences offers excellent training programmes for ambitious PhD candidates who aspire an academic or clinical career in the broad field of psychology.
• Graduate School of Humanities offers a large selection of excellent Master’s, Research Master’s and PhD programmes, which provides first class supervision and research training for humanities scholars at the highest academic level.
• Graduate School of Law offers PhD candidates a framework for training, guidance and support. It also aims to achieve the research mission of the Faculty and to contribute to an interconnected research environment.
• Graduate School of Religion and Theology, by far the largest of its sort in the Netherlands, provides first-class supervision for research-master and PhD candidates in all areas of theology and religious studies.
• Graduate School of Science Faculty offers a highly diverse PhD program combining basic and applied research. PhD candidates are trained in the field of Science and Engineering to find fundamental solutions to major challenges of our time.
• Graduate School of Social Sciences offers research opportunities and a PhD program in welfare, networks and communication, diversity, and governance. 
• Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment, offers disciplinary and multidisciplinary PhD training, a network for high quality environmental and sustainability research and a bridge for sustainable solutions at the science-practice interface.
• Tinbergen Institute offers a research master program in economics, econometrics and finance, as well as PhD opportunities to an international community of excellent students.