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Connecting World-Class Training to Impactful Research Careers

The future of research will be collaborative. Researchers across academic institutions, industry, government, and other organizations will team up to solve complex real-world problems. At Northeastern, we prepare our doctoral students for careers in settings as diverse as laboratories to startup companies to nonprofit institutions leads to greater impact and broader career opportunities, both within and beyond academia.

For Prospective Full-Time Students

Northeastern University offers 35 research doctoral programs across 6 colleges

For Working Professionals

Information and resources regarding Industry PhD opportunities.

For Current Students

The PhD Network provides information for current PhD students in every field and part of the world.

Thinking Outside the Lab: LEADERs Alum Paves the Way for Novel Networked Clinical Documents at Merck and the FDA

Without Northeastern’s Leadership Education Advancing Discovery through Embedded Research (LEADERs) program, for Syed Arefinul…

Experiential > Research

Experiential PhD Expo

by Greg St. Martin

Northeastern hosted the Experiential PhD Expo on May 2nd to showcase the breadth and depth of research PhD students and their faculty mentors are pursuing with external partners.

Experiential

A Crystal-Clear Human Brain

by Sarah Coppola

Professor on a Mission to Create Crystal-Clear Images of the Human Brain A groundbreaking…

Experiential

Origami Speeds up Drug Development

by Sarah Coppola

Since 2015, a research team led by Northeastern engineering professor Carol Livermore has used…

Research