Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program
Our Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program is now in teach-out mode, and Spring 2025 was the final semester of admissions.
New students will henceforth be admitted into the new Ph.D. programs in Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Humanities, Mechanical Engineering, and Natural Sciences.
From the moment you enroll in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, you begin to write your own personal story of the future.
The world of the future will require scholars with a global approach to problem solving. It will no longer be enough to know one area, one discipline, or one field of study. Inquiry and discovery are crossing disciplines. With this in mind, the mission of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program is to span traditional boundaries among disciplines while helping students develop knowledge and skills for independent research on the fundamental questions of the present and the future. Students must be admitted to at least two disciplines (Primary and Co-Discipline) by the end of their first semester.
Participating Disciplines
- Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Cell Biology and Biophysics
- Chemistry
- Computer Networking and Communication Systems
- Computer Science
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Economics
- Educational Leadership, Policy and Foundations
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Engineering
- English
- Geosciences
- History
- Mathematics
- Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Oral and Craniofacial Sciences
- Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Pharmacology
- Physics
- Social Science Consortium