The University of Chicago provides students with a rich array of options for South Asian doctoral studies. Many of those programs are interdisciplinary. Our students have graduated from fifteen departments and three professional programs with Ph.D.s focusing on South Asia during the past decade. While requirements differ by departments, six or seven years to the Ph.D. is typical. It usually requires three years to complete course requirements. These time frames allow adequate time for study in the discipline, area studies, and fieldwork. Social science departments have a language qualification and accept South Asian languages as appropriate to the Ph.D. intentions of students. The chief humanities department, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, requires the "language of concentration," a second South Asian language, and a relevant non-South Asian language. The languages must include one modern and one pre-modern.

Within the Division of the Humanities, there are active programs of South Asian studies in the Departments of English Language and Literature, Music, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and South Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Faculty with South Asia interests in the Division of the Social Sciences are available in the Departments of Anthropology, History, and Political Science.

Several faculty in the Divinity School teach and conduct research on South Asian topics.

A joint international studies program is offered with the Graduate School of Business leading to an M.B.A./A.M. in South Asian Studies.