The Department of Environmental Sciences offers opportunities to pursue individual doctorates in the following subjects:

• Botany
• Geography
• Geosciences
• Prehistory and Archaeological Science
• Environmental Sciences
• Zoology

A doctorate can only be taken up in consultation and agreement with the respective professor.

In addition, it is possible (but not mandatory) to participate in one of several doctoral programs/PhD school:

• PhD Program in Plant Sciences of Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC), which the University of Basel offers together with the University of Zurich and the ETH
• PhD Program in Science and Policy of Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC), which the University of Basel offers together with the University of Zurich and the ETH
• Water-Earth Systems PhD School, which the University of Basel offers together with the University of Neuchâtel, EAWAG, University of Lausanne, University of Bern, and the ETH

For the PhD Programs in Plant Sciences, and in Science and Policy, it is possible to register within three months of enrolling.

The doctoral students belong to Group III of the Departmental Assembly: List of current PhD and PostDoc representatives in the Department Committee.