Curriculum

The PhD Program’s distinct academic approach is designed to enable students to excel as researchers, educators, and scholars in the future.

Throughout their four-year experience, students work closely with PhD faculty and the other students within their field of study and among other scholars and peers across the School. Small class sizes and an intimate faculty-to-student ratio ensures that all students benefit from the attention and expertise of respected experts.

The PhD course involves teaching, seminars and research activities: the educational programs, adjusted for each individual student, are designed to broaden their cultural base and to prepare them for research with the aim of obtaining a particularly high level of specialization in the scientific area.

Students follow their studies in accordance with annually approved plans, and they can obtain authorization and funding to spend periods of study and research in other highly qualified university or scientific institutions in Italy or abroad. At the end of the course, providing all due obligations have been fulfilled, the student will attain the title of Philosophiæ Doctor (PhD).