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.
• Doctoral Schools of the Faculty of Science - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers a very diverse PhD programme with a combination of fundamental and applied research. From the STEM sciences, PhD students are trained to find fundamental solutions to major challenges of our time.
• 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 Social Sciences offers research opportunities and a PhD program in welfare, networks and communication, diversity, and governance. 
• Oncology Graduate School. OOA is a joint graduate school of the Amsterdam UMC Cancer Center Amsterdam and Netherlands Cancer Institute, VU and UvA dedicated to the training of more than 1000 PhD students working in the field of Oncology.
• 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.