ASCoR offers a four-year international Ph.D. program in Communication Science. Applicants come from many countries around the world. The program builds upon the strengths of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, so that Ph.D. students benefit from working with scholars in Communication Science as well as from other social sciences. Upon completion of the program and defense of the dissertation, students receive a Ph.D. in the Social Sciences from the Universiteit van Amsterdam.