PhD Program Requirements
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Student Handbook
The student handbook details the regulations, rules, and procedures that apply to students, including department-specific requirements. Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the policies and following the procedures outlined. Harvard Griffin GSAS reserves the right to make changes to the Policies at any time without advance notice. These changes may affect such matters as tuition and other fees, degrees, and programs offered (including the modification or possible elimination of degrees and programs), degree and other academic requirements, academic policies, rules pertaining to student conduct and discipline, fields or areas of concentration, and other rules and regulations applicable to students.
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Forms
Access the latest registration, financial aid, teaching, readmission, and dissertation forms here.
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Program Requirements
This section provides information about policies regarding transfers to different degree programs and rescinding admissions.
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PhD Programs
- African and African American Studies
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
- Astronomy
- Biological Sciences in Public Health
- Biophysics
- Biostatistics
- Business Administration
- Business Economics
- Byzantine Studies
- Celtic Languages and Literatures
- Chemical Biology
- Chemical Physics
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Classics
- Comparative Literature
- Division of Medical Sciences
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- Economics
- Education
- Engineering and Applied Sciences
- English
- Film and Visual Studies
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Government
- Health Policy
- History
- History of Art and Architecture
- History of Science
- Human Evolutionary Biology
- Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
- Linguistics
- Mathematics
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Music
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- Organizational Behavior
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Economy and Government
- Population Health Sciences
- Psychology
- Public Policy
- Quantum Science and Engineering
- Religion, The Study of
- Romance Languages and Literatures
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Social Policy
- Sociology
- South Asian Studies
- Statistics
- Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology
- Master's Programs
- Secondary Fields
- Non-degree Programs
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PhD Programs
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Academic Calendar
The Academic Calendar can also be found on the FAS Registrar's website or in calendar form on the Harvard Griffin GSAS website. When an official deadline falls on a holiday observed by the University, the effective deadline is the next business day.
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Degree Calendar
The degree calendar outlines deadlines for degree applications, dissertation submission, and degree recommendations.
In addition to the common degree requirements expected of Harvard Griffin GSAS students, students must meet additional requirements specified by their department or program. This section provides additional degree requirements by academic program.