PhD Demography at University of California, Berkeley

The Department of Demography offers an interdisciplinary training program leading to the MA and PhD in Demography. Demography is the systematic study of human populations, a topic central to many pressing policy issues such as the economic development of Third World countries; population aging; the environment; health and mortality; family and household change; immigration; and ethnicity. Demography also has strong intellectual and institutional ties to other fields such as sociology, economics, social history, anthropology, biology, public health, and statistics.

Faculty: Graduate Division  |  Department: Demography  |  Duration: 6 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Berkeley, CA, United States

What you will study

Doctoral Degree Requirements Normative Time Requirements Normative Time to Advancement Normative time to advancement to doctoral candidacy for the Demography PhD is six semesters from the time the student entered the program. Demography students are to complete all required coursework for the Demography master’s degree, whether or not they choose to earn the MA degree. Required courses (i.e., 110, C126 or 200, C175, 210) must be taken on a letter-grade basis.

Career pathways

Graduates enter career areas including Academia & Education, Environment, Government, Health & Medicine, Law & Public Policy, Nonprofit.

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