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The Department offers a PhD degree in Social Anthropology which is based on a minimum of three years’ full-time study and independent research.

At St Andrews there is an intellectually vibrant and devoted community at postgraduate level, and PhD students form an essential part of this. The programme has a strongly international character, with students from a range of cultural and academic backgrounds. Having been ranked first in both the 2014 National Student Survey of Teaching and the 2014 Guardian ranking of UK universities, the Department has strong theoretical interests and regional expertise across the world along with five internationally recognised research centres.

St Andrews is ranked in the top 3 best places to study anthropology in the UK, and considered the best for anthropology in Scotland, according to the Guardian University Guide 2023. Our Department was also named top in the UK for student experience in the National Student Survey 2022.