
PHD Programs in Portugal 2025
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ISCTE Business School – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
PhD in Management
- Lisbon, Portugal
PhD
Full time, Part time
4 years
On-Campus
Portuguese
The Management PhD is a very rigorous, comprehensive and flexible program. Comprised of seven different specialization fields, our PhD is ideal to those who wish to obtain a major training in Management and a more focused approach on another scientific field of their choice.
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School of Agriculture - University of Lisbon
Doctoral Program In Agricultural Innovation In Tropical Food Chains
- Lisbon, Portugal
PhD
Full time
4 weeks
On-Campus
English
A novel and innovative Ph.D. program for students from temperate countries with skills in agriculture and agri-food chains searching for tropical regions contextualization and for students from tropical countries who seek to confront their contextualized competencies with exposure to new technical and scientific knowledge, through an international training experience.
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CATOLICA - Faculty of Human Sciences
Doctoral Program in Communication Studies
- Lisbon, Portugal
PhD
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
Questions around communication, its relationships with the social, political, cultural, and economic spheres, have acquired crucial importance in recent decades and driving a highly significant expansion in the interest and relevance of research undertaken in the field of the Communication Sciences. In parallel, changes in interpersonal, intergroup, and public communications practices, which have come to impact on contemporary societies, have driven the still greater relevance of educating and training highly qualified specialists able to develop fundamental and applied research projects correspondingly able to reply to the different communications challenges prevailing and expanding our knowledge about communication across its most diverse and different facets.
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NOVA School of Law
PhD in Law
- Lisbon, Portugal
PhD
Full time
8 semesters
On-Campus
English
NOVA School of Law’s 3rd Cycle Programme in Law is a four-year program leading to a Ph.D. degree in Law. The Programme comprises a taught component (over three semesters) where advanced legal studies are carried out with an interdisciplinary focus. This period also provides training in research methodologies and other complementary skills. Towards the end of the taught component of the Programme, candidates must prepare and publicly defend their thesis project.
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NOVA IMS - Information Management School
Doctoral Program in Information Management
- Lisbon, Portugal
Doctor of Education
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
The Doctoral Program in Information Management aims to promote knowledge and innovation in Information Management, particularly in the research of its impact on wealth creation, improving the performance of organizations, and the development of new methodologies and decision-making tools.
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SIT Graduate Institute
Doctorate in Global Education – EdD (Part-Time Hybrid)
- Brattleboro, USA
- Lisbon, Portugal
Doctor of Education
Part time
3 years
Blended
English
Built on SIT’s powerful experiential learning model, our hybrid doctorate in global education (EdD) combines rigorous online coursework with short residencies in Vermont to fit the needs of part-time and full-time professionals seeking to rapidly accelerate their careers while tackling highly relevant issues in global education, both locally and abroad.
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University of Porto School of Economics and Management
PhD in Business and Management Studies
- Porto, Portugal
PhD
Full time, Part time
4 years
On-Campus
English
The School of Economics and Management, University of Porto, is a leading school in economics and management in Portugal with a long experience in teaching and research in these fields. By enrolling in the Doctoral Programme, students benefit from the expertise and experience of this most distinguished research community.
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Porto Law School
PhD in Law
- Porto, Portugal
PhD
Part time
4 years
On-Campus
Portuguese
The PhD program in Catholic Porto aims to train quality researchers, contributing to the development of research in the Faculty, as well as to the critical and responsible construction of legal science in Portugal.
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Porto
PhD in Applied Psychology
- Porto, Portugal
PhD
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
Elevate your career with the International Ph.D. in Applied Psychology: Adaptation and change in contemporary societies, a joint degree offered by the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (FEP-UCP), the University of Ramon Llull (Spain) and the Nottingham Trent University (UK).
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ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management
PhD in Economic and Organizational Sociology
- Lisbon, Portugal
PhD
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
The Ph.D. Economic and Organizational Sociology was established by the Technical University of Lisbon in 1991 and adapted to the European Higher Education Area in 2009.
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University of Algarve
PhD in Marine, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Faro, Portugal
PhD
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
To promote advanced formation, multi and interdisciplinary in scientific areas related to PhD in Environmental, Marine and Earth Sciences. Development of skills and scientific training at the highest level, including scientific analysis, innovation, critical thinking, decision-making and independent research work
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Universidade de Aveiro
Doctorate in Computer Engineering (Taught in English)
- Aveiro, Portugal
PhD
4 years
On-Campus
English
The University of Aveiro is proud of a history of excellence in teaching and research in the areas of Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology. Multiple teaching projects, some with pioneering character in the country, and multifaceted research dynamics with international recognition, shape this history. History that also records the fundamental role it has played in the creation and structuring of a business fabric that has in Informatics and, more generally, in Information and Communication Technologies, an essential component of its activity.
Universidade Lusófona do Porto
PhD in Architecture
- Porto, Portugal
PhD
Full time
6 semesters
On-Campus
Portuguese
The PhD in Architecture at Universidade Lusófona do Porto has as its main objective the training of researchers and teachers in the field of Architecture. The present proposal aims to satisfy the need for innovative and creative training in the country and in the Portuguese-speaking space in its area of expertise, Architecture.
University Fernando Pessoa
PhD in Ecology and Environmental Health
- Porto, Portugal
PhD
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
The Doctoral Programme is related to the course’s teaching staff’s national and international research projects that have resulted in a considerable number of scientific articles.
Universidade Europeia
PhD in Psychology
- Lisbon, Portugal
PhD
Full time
8 semesters
On-Campus
Portuguese
The PhD in Psychology emerges as the fruit of a serious investment in this scientific area, not only through the provision of a highly qualified and research-oriented teaching staff, but also through the investment in its own infrastructures and specific resources, which serve both pedagogical and how they assume themselves as intentional promoters of the scientific activities of students and teachers.