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The Monash Arts PhD stands as a premier graduate research program that connects visionary thinkers with top-tier academics, specialists, and industry collaborators to drive meaningful global transformation. Your analytical, curious, and innovative mindset will investigate pressing challenges and emerging possibilities, converting discoveries into practical, significant, and genuinely influential outcomes.
Central to the PhD experience is the Arts Advantage PhD initiative. This program features an in-depth, self-directed research endeavor guided by a minimum of two faculty advisors, complemented by professional growth opportunities and coursework designed to equip you for creating change across academic, corporate, public, and societal spheres.
The minimum qualifications for admission to PhD enrolment are:
a bachelor's degree requiring at least four years of full-time study in a relevant field, and which normally includes a research component in the fourth year, leading to an honours 1 or 2A in a relevant field;
a course leading to a level rated by the relevant department, faculty and committee as equivalent to an honours 1 or 2A in a relevant field;
a master's degree that entails work, normally including a significant research component, including at least 25% of one full time equivalent year of work, including a thesis. It is normally expected that a grade of honours 2A has been obtained for the research thesis or project. Where ungraded, examiners' reports will be taken into account; or
have qualifications which in the opinion of GRC are deemed equivalent.
English entry requirements
IELTS 7.0 overall (no band less than 6.5)
TOEFL (paper-based) : 587+ TWE 4.5
TOEFL 94 + Reading 19, Listening 20, Speaking 20 & Writing 24
Pearson Test of English (Academic): 65 + communicative score 58
Cambridge English: 185 + Writing 185 and no skill below 169