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Doctoral programme School of Humanities

Doctoral programme School of Humanities - Available at University of Iceland

It is possible to take doctoral studies at the School of Humanities in those subjects for which the relevant faculty and the School of Humanities deem the necessary facilities and specialist knowledge to be available, on the condition that the School board has approved the programme. The objective of a doctoral programme is to provide doctoral students with extensive and solid training in research, enable them to conduct independent academic work, acquire new knowledge and communicate it.

Doctoral programmes in the Faculty of History and Philosophy, Faculty of Languages and Culture and the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies are 180 ECTS (three years) and 240 ECTS (four years) in the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies.