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 a 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 law;
• to provide students with opportunities both to build on and develop material which they may have studied at undergraduate level as well as to broaden their knowledge base;
• to provide opportunities for education in a multidisciplinary environment so as to advance the understanding of cognate disciplines and their applications;
• to provide opportunities for learning with colleagues from different social, economic and legal systems;
• to 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;
• to 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.

Feedback

Students can expect to receive an online feedback report each term.

Assessment

Thesis

The maximum length for the thesis is 80,000 words.

Other

In the third Term (fifth Term for part-time students) students will submit a report of 10,000 words and have an oral  assessment based on the report to confirm that satisfactory progress has been made - full registration for the PhD is subject to successfully completing this assessment.

Students are required to complete at least once per year a Training and Progress Log recording details of any training sessions they have undertaken and noting their progress to date.  The Department offers some in-house research training and advice sessions for PhD students and also encourages students to make full use of the training opportunities available via the University's Social Sciences Research Methods Centre. 

• Magistr (Master's Degree) at Pass level. Diploma Specialista (completed post-1991) with a minimum overall grade of good or 4/5 Bachelor's from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and other prestigious institutions with an overall grade of 4/5 Bologna Bachelor's from other institutions with an overall grade of 5/5, Excellent
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• IELTS (Academic) 7.5
• TOEFL Internet Score 110
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• First Academic Reference
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• Transcript
• Research Proposal
• Personal Reference

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