Doctoral Programmes

Structured programmes that complement individual supervision.

Doctoral programmes offer your doctoral candidates additional opportunities for academic exchange, the development of disciplinary and interdisciplinary skills, and the establishment of research networks. They complement individual supervision by providing a structured environment featuring seminars, workshops, colloquia, and other academic activities.

As part of the 2025–2028 funding call, the University of Fribourg supports the following doctoral programmes:

  • German-Swiss Doctoral Colloquium (DDK)
  • Fribourg Graduate School for Life Sciences and Medicine
  • Multilingualism: Acquisition, Formation, and Society
  • Renaissance / Early Modern Period
  • Musicology
  • PhD programmes in Neuroscience
  • Food, Nutrition, and Health
  • Spectroscopy and Non-equilibrium Dynamics
  • PROWEL – Social Problems and Social Welfare
  • Regimes of Inequality – Past and Present
  • General and Comparative Literature

Learn more about the doctoral programmes at the University of Fribourg and the offerings from CUSO.

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