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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    University of Cambridge

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    APR

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary

Land Economy offers a full-time and a part-time PhD programme. The Department currently has over 70 PhD students at different stages of the programme, working in a range of areas. Further information is given on the Department's website.The aims of the PhD programme are:to enable students of high calibre to pursue their education at an advanced applied level drawing on the primary disciplines of economics, planning and environmental policy, with additional specialisms in finance and lawto provide students with opportunities both to build on and develop material which they may have studied at the undergraduate level as well as to broaden their knowledge baseto provide opportunities for education in a multidisciplinary environment so as to advance the understanding of cognate disciplines and their applicationsto provide opportunities for learning with colleagues from different social, economic and legal systemsto provide students with appropriate skills and experience to enable them to use information and resources critically and to equip them with the means to undertake their own research andto provide an educational environment with a strong research ethos that brings together students from a wide variety of backgrounds and fosters an international approach to common problems.

Application deadline

14/01/2026

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Tuition fees

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£ 39,336per year

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University information

University of Cambridge

  • University League Table

    1st

  • Campus address

    University of Cambridge, The Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, United Kingdom

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    1st out of 77

  • Entry standards

    / Max 235
    215 91%

    2nd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    96.0 96%

    1st

    3
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.11 78%

    32nd

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