While applicants seeking more interdisciplinary opportunities may choose the general studies program, Harvard Griffin GSAS reserves the right to send an application to a specific admissions committee if a candidate’s experience and interests are more suited to a particular department.
- African and African American Studies
- Anthropology
- Astronomy
- Biological Sciences in Public Health**
- Biophysics
- Biostatistics
- Business Administration*†
- Business Economics*†
- Celtic Languages and Literatures
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- The Classics
- Comparative Literature
- Division of Medical Sciences*
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences*
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- Economics*
- English
- Film and Visual Studies
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Government‡
- Health Policy†
- History
- History of Art and Architecture
- History of Science*§
- Human Evolutionary Biology
- Linguistics
- Mathematics
- Middle Eastern Studies§
- Molecular and Cellular Biology*
- Music
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- Organizational Behavior*†
- Philosophy†
- Physics
- Psychology
- Public Policy*†‡
- Religion
- Romance Languages and Literatures
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Sociology*
- South Asian Studies
- Statistics
- Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology
* Applicants must have the confirmed support of at least one faculty member to be considered. Additional notes: the Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Sciences (DMS) visiting fellows must be working in the lab of a faculty member who is affiliated with one of the six DMS PhD Programs.
**Special student applicants should contact the academic program before applying to discuss their proposed Plan of Study. Courses offered may have restrictions.
† Accepts applications for visiting fellow status only.
‡The Department of Government and the committee on public policy do not permit affiliation as a special student if you plan to apply for PhD study within 18 months.
§ Only special student applications are considered; research students should inquire directly with the department.