List of colleges and universities with history of science programs

The study of the history of science is focused on understanding the development, evolution, and impact of the sciences from antiquity through the 20th century. Many colleges and universities offer the history of science as part of an interdisciplinary program which combines the history of science with the philosophy of science, the sociology of science, the history of technology, the history of the environment, and/or the history of medicine.

In the US, Ph.D. programs at Harvard University, Indiana University, Bloomington, Iowa State University, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, University of Oklahoma, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Yale University were ranked by the United States National Research Council.

The following schools offer degrees where the history of science is primary or central to the program. It does not include science, technology and society programs unless the program emphasizes history. Many schools have special emphasis in particular sub disciplines in the field, such as the history of chemistry, history of biology, history of physics, history of astronomy or history of mathematics. Where possible, this has been noted for the schools below.

Programs in the United States

School	Location	Program	Comments	Degrees Awarded	Ref.
Arizona State University	Arizona	History and Philosophy of Science		Ph.D.
Brown University	Rhode Island	History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity		Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology	California	History and Philosophy of Science	Special emphasis: fruitful interaction between historians and philosophers of science and scientists	B.S.
Carnegie Mellon University	Pennsylvania	History of Technology, Environment, Science, and Health	[...] policy and public health biotechnologies and the law technological innovation urban and rural environmental history	Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University	Ohio	History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine	the social and cultural history of technology technology and science policy environmental history and policy the history of the physical sciences since the Renaissance gender issues in technology and science the history of medicine	M.A., Ph.D.
City University of New York, the Graduate Center	New York	History of Science		Ph.D.
Columbia University	New York	History of Science	late medieval, early modern European twentieth century US history of science, public health, and medicine	Ph.D.
Drexel University	Pennsylvania	Science, Technology and Society	history of science and technology	B.A./M.S., B.S./M.S.
Duke University	North Carolina	History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine		PgC
Florida State University	Florida	History and Philosophy of Science	interdisciplinary perspective of the biological and environmental sciences	M.A.
Florida State University	Florida	History of Science, Medicine, and the Environment		M.A., Ph.D.
Harvard University	Massachusetts	History of Science		B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Indiana University, Bloomington	Indiana	History and Philosophy of Science	before 1800 biological sciences medicine mind and cognition models and evidence modern and contemporary physical sciences	M.A., Ph.D.
Iowa State University	Indiana	History of Technology and Science		M.S., Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University	Maryland	History of Science and Technology	the history of early-modern science the history of American science and technology	B.A., Ph.D.
Kean University	New Jersey	History of Science, Technology and Medicine	history, development and social impact of scientific IDeaS, machines, medical practices and the lives of the men and women who promoted, defended and attacked them	B.A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts	History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS)	cultures of engineering the making of scientific tools and theories conventions of laboratory practice science and technology in military enterprise the relation of technology to economic institutions the relation of science and law the politics of race and science knowledge-production in biomedicine and life sciences agricultural and environmental history science education	Ph.D.
Michigan State University	Michigan	History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science		B.S.
Mississippi State University	Mississippi	History of Science and Technology	eugenics technical education aerospace cancer research national science policy popular science local industries	Ph.D.
Montana State University	Montana	History of Science, the Environment, Technology, and Society		B.A., Ph.D.
New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering	New York	History of Science and Technology	history of U.S. technology history of German and British science and technology genetic patenting and intellectual property in the U.S. and Europe bioethics philosophy of science and technology history and philosophy of quantum theory	M.S.
Oregon State University	Oregon	History of Science	scientific traditions since the sixteenth century in Europe and North America physical, earth, biological, medical, and social sciences environmental history history of the environmental sciences	M.A., M.S., Ph.D.
Princeton University	New Jersey	History of Science		B.A., Ph.D.
Rutgers-Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology	New Jersey	History of Technology, Environment, and Medicine/Health	environmental history urban environments the social and cultural history of medicine, health and technology the history of print culture and communications the cultural history of media the history of law, technology and culture	M.A.
Rutgers University	New Jersey	History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Health		Ph.D.
Stanford University	California	History and Philosophy of Science		B.A., Ph.D.
Stanford University	California	History of Science, Medicine and Technology		Ph.D.
State University of New York, Stony Brook	New York	Environment, Health, Science & Technology	history of the contrasts and inter-relations between city and country technoscience in history environment and health in global perspective the history of technocracy industry, place and politics history of the body natural history and national culture	Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley	California	History and Philosophy of Science		Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley	California	History of Science		Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego	California	History of Science		B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco	California	History of Health Sciences	history of health sciences (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, alternative healing, and biomedical research)	M.A., Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara	California	History of Science		Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles	California	History of Science, Medicine, and Technology		Ph.D.
University of Chicago	Illinois	History of Science and Medicine		Ph.D.
University of Chicago	Illinois	Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science	history and philosophy of biology and psychology history of medicine and psychiatry history of statistics and probability sociology and anthropology of science history of communication and the book	M.A., Ph.D.
University of Delaware	Delaware	Hagley Graduate Program in History	history of industrialization, capitalism, technology, consumption, business, labor, and the environment	M.A., Ph.D.
University of Illinois	Illinois	History of Science, Technology and Medicine	history of technology, public health, medicine, psychiatry, biology, physics, chemistry, anthropology, media, and science and health policy	Ph.D.
University of Maryland	Maryland	History of Science, Technology, and Society		B.A.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Massachusetts	History of Science		M.A.
University of Massachusetts, Boston	Massachusetts	Science in a Changing World		M.A.
University of Minnesota	Minnesota	History of Science, Technology, and Medicine		M.A., Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame	Indiana	History and Philosophy of Science		M.A., Ph.D.	\|-Includes full training in philosophy, history, or theology
University of Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	History and Sociology of Science		B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	History and Philosophy of Science		B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
University of South Carolina	South Carolina	History of Science, Technology, and the Environment		Ph.D.
University of Washington	Washington	History and Philosophy of Science		B.A., Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison	Wisconsin	History of Science, Medicine, and Technology		B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Wesleyan University	Connecticut	Science in Society		B.S.
Yale University	Connecticut	History of Science and Medicine		B.A., M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D., J.D./Ph.D.

International programs

An 18th-century Persian astrolabe.
Whipple Museum Collection part of the Department Of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

School	Location	Program	Comment	Degrees Awarded
Ankara University	Turkey	History of Science	Covers historical, cultural and philosophical issues in science and medicine from Antiquity, Classical Islamic and Ottomans Periods up to the present day.	M.A, Ph.D.
Bielefeld University	Germany	History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science		M.A.
Charles University	Czech Republic	Philosophy and History of Sciences	evolution of life and its interpretation (mathematical, genetic, philosophical) the philosophy of life the history and philosophy of biology (and similar boundary areas) the origins of ancient Greek and Modern science the philosophical basis of knowledge and the nature of truth history of natural sciences shapes and mimesis in living nature biological similarities morphogenesis of bacterial colonies informational processes in living systems the complexity of living systems	B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Durham University	United Kingdom	History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine	Covers historical, cultural and philosophical issues in science and medicine from Antiquity up to the present day.	M.A.
Eötvös Loránd University	Hungary	History and Philosophy of Science		Ph.D.
ETH Zurich	Switzerland	History and Philosophy of Knowledge		M.A.
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University	Turkey	History of Science	History of Science	B.A., M.A.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	History, Philosophy, and Sociology or Science		Ph.D.
Hokkaido University	Japan	Natural History Sciences	earth sciences (cosmo- and planetary sciences, atmosphere-ocean science, biogeoscience, solid earth science, and earth resource science) biodiversity and organismal evolution (taxonomy, phylogeny, phylogeography, ancient DNA science, population genetics, and evolutionary developmental biology)	M.A., Ph.D.
Istanbul University	Turkey	History of Science	Covers historical, cultural and philosophical issues in science and medicine from Antiquity, Classical Islamic and Ottomans Periods up to the present day.	B.A., M.A, Ph.D.
King's College London	United Kingdom	Science, Technology, and Medicine in History		M.A., Ph.D.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	History of Science, Technology, and Environment	Specializations in Industrial Heritage, History of Science and Environmental History, all of which are characterized by a spatial and material approach when studying the past.	Ph.D.
Kyoto University	Japan	Philosophy and History of Science		B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany	History of Science		M.A.
Oxford University	United Kingdom	History of Science, Medicine, and Technology		M.S., M.Phil
Paris Diderot University	France	History and Philosophy of Science		M.A., Ph.D.
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo	Brazil	History of Science	History, Science, and Culture History and Theory of Science	M.S., Ph.D.
Seoul National University	Korea	History of Science		M.A., Ph.D.
Seoul National University	Korea	Western History of Science		M.A., Ph.D.
Seoul National University	Korea	East Asian History of Science		M.A., Ph.D.
Shanxi University	China	History of Science and Technology		Ph.D.
Tel Aviv University	Israel	History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas	History of Science and Intellectual History of the Western World Philosophy of Science, with emphasis on the periods following the Scientific Revolution The Anthropology of Knowledge History and Philosophy of Biology History of Technology History and Philosophy of Ancient and of Modern Mathematics Cultural Studies, with emphasis on Critical Aspects of Modern Western Culture and in the Israeli context, a critical study of Science and Judaism	M.A., Ph.D.
TU Berlin	German	History and Culture of Science and Technology		M.A.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	History of Science		M.A., Ph.D.
University College London	United Kingdom	History and Philosophy of Science	See also Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine	B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	History and Philosophy of Science	Literature, medicine, and science Science, religion and philosophy since 1650 History of medicine since Antiquity; medicine in literature and film since the 18th century Philosophy of physics; history and philosophy of quantum mechanics History and philosophy of the life sciences; current issues in philosophy of biology History and philosophy of technology Science, technology and literature Science and popular culture since 1800 Material culture of science and museology	M.Litt., M.Res., Ph.D.
University of Athens	Greece	History of Science and Technology		M.S., Ph.D.
University of Bern	Switzerland	Philosophy and History of Science		B.S., M.S.
University of Bristol	United Kingdom	Philosophy and History of Science	The history of science is studied in terms of the philosophical debate about the nature of scientific method and knowledge.	M.A.
University of British Columbia	Canada	History and Philosophy of Science		B.A.
University of British Columbia	Canada	History of Science, Technology, and Medicine		Ph.D.
University of Calgary	Canada	History of Science		M.A., Ph.D.
University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	History and Philosophy of Science	See also: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge	B.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Universidade de Coimbra	Portugal	History of Science and Science Education	the role of history of science in: scientific education the public understanding of science	Ph.D.
University of Guelph	Canada	History of Science, Technology, and Medicine		M.A.
University of Leeds	United Kingdom	History and Philosophy of Science		M.A.
University of Leeds	United Kingdom	History of Science, Technology, and Medicine		M.A.
University of Lisbon and New University of Lisbon	Portugal	History and Philosophy of Science		M.S., Ph.D.
University of Manchester	State	History of Science, Technology, and Medicine		M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.
University of Oulu	Finland	History of Science and Ideas		B.A., M.A.
University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom	History of Science, Technology, and Medicine		B.A., M.Res., M.Phil., Ph.D.
University of Stuttgart	Germany	History of Natural Sciences and Technology		B.A.
University of Sydney	Australia	History and Philosophy of Science		PgC, M.S., Ph.D.
University of Tokyo	Japan	History and Philosophy of Science		B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
University of Toronto	Canada	History and Philosophy of Science and Technology	history of medicine and biological sciences history of mathematics and physical sciences history of technology general philosophy of science philosophy of biology philosophy of medicine philosophy of physics philosophy of mathematics	M.A., Ph.D.
University of Vienna	State	History and Philosophy of Science		M.A.
University of York	Canada	History of Science Health and the Envrionment		M.A., Ph.D.
Utrecht University	Netherlands	History and Philosophy of Science	History of science or the humanities Philosophy of science Foundation of physics Foundations of mathematics and logic	M.S.

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History of Science Society: Graduate Programs in History of Science and Related Studies

List of colleges and universities with history of science programs

Programs in the United States

International programs

See also

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