The PhD in Social Policy and Sociology is a joint degree of the Sociology Department and The Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Students are encouraged to apply during the first year of study in either department. The application deadline is April 1 for the following September. Students are responsible for obtaining a letter of recommendation from their program director. If the student is accepted by the complementary department (admission is not guaranteed) the following procedures apply. ...
Doctoral study in the Social Policy Department with our MPhil/PhD programme.
Heller PhD students learn to design and conduct policy research in a program with a 100% job placement rate at a top-ten school of social policy. Discover how to generate knowledge that can improve...
Year after year, our top-ranked PhD program sets the standard for graduate economics training... degree in five to six years. Students undertake core coursework in microeconomic theory...
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PhD in Social Welfare Our doctoral program aims to foster independent researchers who can make significant contributions to the scholarship of social welfare. Doctoral students are expected to focu...
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Additional information on the graduate program is available from the PhD Program in Social Policy and requirements for the degree are detailed in Policies. Areas of Study Social Policy and...
The HSS PhD program in the social sciences offers the opportunity for highly motivated and quantitatively oriented students to pursue interdisciplinary research in areas common to economics, political science, political economy, history, psychology, anthropology, law, and public policy. A foundational belief of the program is that a wide variety of social phenomena are best understood as the consequence of intelligent decisions by individuals pursuing their own ends. Caltech social scientists have established that such decisions can be modeled ...