Departments & Degree Programs
**NOTE: Students may apply and be admitted directly to the departments or programs marked below with an asterisk; however, the Ph.D. degree is offered only through one of the participating departments identified in the program description. Prior to the second year of study at Duke, students must select and identify a participating department in which they plan to earn the Ph.D. degree.
- Art, Art History and Visual Studies
- Biochemistry
- Biological and Biologically Inspired Materials**
- Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Business Administration
- Cell and Molecular Biology**
- Cell Biology
- Chemistry
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Classical Studies
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Computer Science
- Cultural Anthropology
- Developmental and Stem Cell Biology**
- Earth and Ocean Sciences
- East Asian Studies
- Ecology
- Economics
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- English
- Environment
- Evolutionary Anthropology
- Genetics and Genomics
- German Studies
- Global Health
- History
- Humanities
- Immunology
- Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health**
- International Development Policy
- Liberal Studies
- Literature
- Marine Science and Conservation
- Master of Arts in Teaching
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Medical Physics
- Medical Scientist Training
- Molecular Cancer Biology
- Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
- Music
- Neurobiology
- Nursing
- Pathology
- Pharmacology
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology and Neuroscience
- Public Policy Studies
- Religion
- Romance Studies
- Slavic and Eurasian Studies
- Sociology
- Statistical Science
- Structural Biology and Biophysics**