University of Oxford

ARWU Rank:
 7

Established: 1096
Country: UK

Online Doctorate Program Name:
DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care

Residency Requirements: Research students are required to attend Oxford in person for a minimum of 30 days each year.

The part-time DPhil is part of the Evidence-Based Health Care Programme, which is jointly run with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences. The programme also works closely with the Centres of Evidence-Based Nursing, Evidence-Based Mental Health, and Evidence-Based Dentistry. You have access to the full range of Oxford's library and computing facilities.

Length: 4 to 8 years

Required GPA: 3.6+

Required Master's Degree: Yes

ARWU Rank:
 7

Established: 1096
Country: UK

Online Doctorate Program Name:
DPhil in Literature and Arts

Residency Requirements: Expected to attend and to contribute to the wide range of research seminars.

The DPhil in Literature and Arts is an interdisciplinary part-time doctorate offered by the Department for Continuing Education, focusing on a subject in British history between c. 1450 and c. 1914.

Length: 4 to 8 years

Required GPA: 3.7+

Required Master's Degree: No

ARWU Rank:
 7

Established: 1096
Country: UK

Online Doctorate Program Name:
DPhil in English Local History

Residency Requirements: Required to undertake appropriate research training provided within the University.

Local history has for more than twenty years formed one of the largest programmes within the Department for Continuing Education. The subject has proved an interesting, rewarding and accessible area of historical studies that has enabled many mature students to become directly involved in individual research. At undergraduate level the Department has, since 1980, offered a Diploma course and, in 1999, introduced a pioneering Internet-delivered Advanced Diploma.

Length: 4 to 6 years

Required GPA: 3.7+

Required Master's Degree: No

ARWU Rank:
 7

Established: 1096
Country: UK

Online Doctorate Program Name:
DPhil in Archaeology

Residency Requirements: Required to undertake appropriate research training provided within the University.

The part-time DPhil programme caters for students specialising mainly in landscape and professional archaeology topics, largely concentrated on Britain and Europe. Occasionally, other topics are accepted but admission in these cases is strictly dependent on the availability of appropriate supervision elsewhere in the university.

Length: 4 to 6 years

Required GPA: 3.7+

Required Master's Degree: No

ARWU Rank:
 7

Established: 1096
Country: UK

Online Doctorate Program Name:
DPhil in Architectural History

Residency Requirements: Supervision is provided on an individual basis.

The DPhil programme draws on considerable experience in providing advanced tuition in architectural history. It profits from the close links within the department between the disciplines of architectural history, art history, English local history and landscape archaeology. It also has links with other parts of the University, particularly the Faculty of History, the Department of the History of Art, and Kellogg College, amongst the fellows of which is the largest concentration of architectural historians associated with the University.

Length: 5 to 8 years

Required GPA: 3.5+

Required Master's Degree: No

ARWU Rank:
 7

Established: 1096
Country: UK

Online Doctorate Program Name:
DPhil in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Residency Requirements: Examination for the DPhil is by submission of a thesis and oral examination.

The chosen topic of a DPhil in CBT should have a significant focus on issues related to cognitive behavioural theory and/or practice, for example: the development of a better understanding of the cognitive and behavioural aspects of a problem; developing an aspect of CBT to address a particular disorder; exploring theoretical or methodological issues in relation to cognitive behavioural practice etc.

Length: 6 to 8 years

Required GPA: N/A

Required Master's Degree: N/A

ARWU Rank:
 7

Established: 1096
Country: UK

Online Doctorate Program Name:
DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development

Residency Requirements: A minimum of 30 days of university-based work each year.

The Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Sustainable Urban Development is a part-time doctoral programme that provides outstanding students an opportunity to pursue in-depth and rigorous research about the pressing challenges of urban sustainability and the processes of environmental, economic, and social development in urban environments around the world.

Length: 4 to 8 years

Required GPA: 3.7+

Required Master's Degree: Yes