16 Natural Sciences Doctoral Degree Programs in China

Westlake University’s Chemistry department is a pioneering, supportive, and innovative community of scholar-practitioners focused on building excellence between the chemical sciences and related branches of physical science, medicine, engineering, and material sciences.

The Peking University School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) enrolls international students to study for master's and Ph.D. degrees through the "Application+Examination" method in 2025, assessing the applicant's comprehensive quality and ability.

The MPhil-PhD Program in Computational Social Science is designed for students who wish to pursue an academic career in the broad area of computational social science and humanities. It will train students to identify interesting and promising research topics and conduct research projects by bridging the gap between computational techniques and traditional studies in humanities and social sciences.

Westlake University’s Biology department is a pioneering, supportive, and innovative community of scholar-practitioners focused on building excellence between the biological sciences and related branches of physical science, medicine, engineering, and material sciences.

Westlake University’s Ph.D. in Mathematics program provides support and research on disruptive technologies and innovation in big data, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, life science, medicine, manufacturing, and other fields. Mathematics research includes solving fundamental problems in number theory, algebra, geometry, analysis, topology, equation, probability, and mathematical physics and their application to other areas in statistics, mathematical modeling, scientific computing, and original cutting-edge research within applied sciences.

Quantitative Biology and Complex Systems is an interdisciplinary field that integrates biology, mathematics, physics, computer science, and engineering to study living systems in a measurable, predictable, and modelable manner.

Physics at Westlake University has developed rapidly in recent years.  Great progress has been made in theoretical physics, condensed matter physics, atomic and molecular, and optical physics, and there are plans to develop high-energy physics and astrophysics directions. Physics students receive solid training in mathematics and theoretical and experimental physics. They will develop a wide range of interests and skills through coursework, experimentation, and participation in academic seminars and academic presentations.

Research in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) program focuses on designing and creating new materials, understanding their structure-property-function relationships, and applying these discoveries for the well-being of society through advancements in manufacturing, electronics, energy, sustainability, healthcare, and public health.

The predecessor of the Mechanical Engineering in China University of Petroleum is the original discipline of petroleum mechanical engineering founded in 1952 at the department of petroleum engineering in Tsinghua University, which is the earliest established oil field mechanical discipline.

Chemical Engineering and Technology is one of the first batches of national key discipline. The School of Chemical Engineering is the main supporting unit for the discipline of chemical engineering and technology in ECUST. The school has the first batch of national doctoral and master's degree programs in chemical engineering and chemical technology. The current main scientific research directions include Chemical Reaction Engineering, Chemical Separation Engineering, Chemical Process Intensification, Chemical Thermodynamics, Oil and Gas Processing, Carbon-I Chemical Industry, Energy Chemical Engineering, Materials Chemical Engineering, Chemical Product Engineering, and Computer Molecular Simulation.

The PhD in Mathematics degree program trains students for careers pursuing research in either academia or industry. The program provides rigorous classroom training in the theory of mathematics and in its applications to a broad range of disciplines. It provides students with the opportunity to work with faculty on advanced research topics over a wide range of theoretical and applied topics.

This Signal and Information Processing discipline is a Ph.D. degree conferring site. More than 30 projects of national and ministry level and 18 projects of industry sectors are under taken.

Geology is a program that studies material compositions, internal structure and external features of earth, mutual interactions between earths and the history of the evolution of earth.

This Nuclear Energy Science and Engineering specialty was founded in 2000. The aim of this specialty is training the graduate students to be the high-level professional talents, mastery of the basic theory about Engineering Thermo-physics and Nuclear ...

Geophysics has to do with the physics of the earth and its surrounding atmosphere and applies the theory and method of physics, combined with geology, atmospheric science, marine science and astronomy, to detect all kinds of geophysical fields (such as the earth's magnetic field, electric field, gravity field and seismic wave field, temperature field, the interior of the earth radiation, atmosphere and plasma radiation field, high electromagnetic field, etc.) by means of modern science and technology. You will learn to use such geophysical fields to obtain useful information that is used during exploration, drilling and production of hydrocarbons.