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The department attempts to provide financial assistance to students whose performance is at a consistently high level for the five-to-six years that they are in residence as students.
The Doctor of Philosophy in Classics is integrated into the Joint Graduate Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science. The program is primarily designed to train professional scholars and teachers of the Classics with a specializations in ancient philosophy and/or ancient science.
The departments of Classics, Philosophy, and History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh cooperate in offering a program leading to the Ph.D. degree in classics, philosophy, or history and philosophy of science, with a special concentration in ancient philosophy and/or science. Learn more about this unique program.
Reading Lists are intended to help students prepare for the Preliminary Doctoral Examination and the following Comprehensive Ph.D.
Learn more about the Classics Ph.D. Dissertations from 1919 to present day.