The Doctoral School of Biology and Spotbiology provides PhD in Biology and Sport Biology in a wide range of fields of biology and sports biology including genetics, microbiology, plant biology, ecology, regulatory biology, fitness, stress, sport, and immune system. Excellently equipped laboratories are available in the biology departments and at the Szentágothai Research Center of UP, as well as at the Balaton Limnological Institute. Through international contacts, we give the opportunity to our Ph.D. students mobility.

This programme thesis should frame an overview of sports discipline management by presenting both fundamental principles and current practical issues. The candidate may explain the relevance of sociological, cultural, historical, political, psychological and legal concepts to sport management; also the necessary professional skills and attitudes of sport managers and the ways in which the globalization of sport continues to affect the sport management professions are relevant topics.

The Doctorate of Sport Science (DS) program provides students with the knowledge necessary to apply the management principles, concepts, and practices associated with the operations and maintenance of sports and recreation facilities. Students learn to interpret the legal and regulatory issues associated with recreational, officially sanctioned, and professional sports.

Through the doctoral thesis, in which the qualification finally culminates, a qualifying student would show evidence of independent and original scientific work. The thesis would constitute a decided contribution to the knowledge of and insight into the subject discipline as well as the field of research.

The study program is implemented within the scientific field of Kinanthropology. Research in Kinanthropology deals with the complex effects of intentional and spontaneous physical activity on the development of human personality in the bio-psycho-social context and conditions of the environment of physical education and sport, physiotherapy, health physical education, including their effective management. Kinanthropology, therefore, represents an interdisciplinary field requiring variability of the approach to solving research problems, in which a systemic approach with an accent on methodology has long been emphasized.

The only programme of its kind in Scotland, DPsych in Sports and Exercise develops advanced therapeutic skills through inter-disciplinary learning, teaching, and research. This new and exciting area of psychology is becoming increasingly popular.

The Academy of Physical Education offers third-cycle (doctoral) studies in the field of physical education. A person with a master's degree or an equivalent degree may be admitted to studies.

The specialization available in our doctoral program is in “Health and Sports Science”, for which enrollment capacity is set at 10 students. Graduates are awarded the degree of “Ph.D. (Health and Sports Science).”