• PhD in Theatre at the University of Victoria is offered as a 5-years program by the Department of Theatre.
  • The University of Victoria also ranked 2nd in Maclean’s top Canadian Comprehensive Universities 2019.
  • UVic's Department of Theatre is one of the most comprehensive and immersive theatre programs in Canada.
  • Here, students will receive hands-on experience in all areas of theatre, taught by leading scholars and theatre professionals in one of the most innovative teaching facilities in North America.
  • Doctoral students may propose and pursue research projects on a wide range of topics from Greek tragedy to Broadway musicals, dance to opera, the history of applied theatre to the economics of commercial touring, melodrama to Modernism, a spectacle to social identities, indigenous theatre to theatre technology.
  • The PhD program consists of a minimum of 42 units.