Key information
Duration
- Full-time: 24 months (2–4 years)
- Part-time: 48 months (4–6 years)
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime. Apply all year round.
Language
English
TOEFL iBT: 88
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Language Studies
Overview
The University of Liverpool has excellent research facilities within the German PhD programme.
Features
As well as our established strengths in twentieth-century and contemporary German literature and cultural studies, our world-leading researchers offer specialist supervision on German and comparative topics at the forefront of a number of important interdisciplinary fields: cultural sociology, film studies, sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, and translation studies.
Programme Structure
Curriculum
- Cultural history of the 20th Century
- Contemporary late 20th and 21st-century literature and film
- German sociolinguistics and pedagogy
- Translation Studies
- German
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
GPA: Upper Second Class
English requirements
TOEFL iBT: 88
General requirements
- Applications are welcomed from both full-time and part-time students.
- For research degrees, we would normally expect applicants to have a BA or BSc degree of 2:1 standard (and also an MA) in a subject relevant to the proposed field of research.
Tuition Fees
International: 48,246 AUD / year (approximately 25,350 GBP / year)
Domestic: 9,969 AUD / year (approximately 5,238 GBP / year)
Home part-time: £2,619
International part-time: £12,650
Living costs
Liverpool, United Kingdom: 1,058–1,970 AUD / month