13 fee-waived PhD programs in Literature — US
13 programs for a PhD in Literature in the US that answer which programs in this group cost nothing to apply to. Every program here either offers an application-fee waiver or charges no application fee.
fee-waived Programs
Every program here either offers an application-fee waiver or charges no application fee.
- 1
Harvard University
- Grad School Navigator#1University rank
- QS#3Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#5Subject rank
- U.S. News#3Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Annual tuition
- $57,328
- Program duration
- 84 months
- 2
University of California, Berkeley
- Grad School Navigator#6University rank
- QS#5Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#6Subject rank
- U.S. News#11Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Annual tuition
- $15,102
- Program duration
- 96 months
- 3
University of Pennsylvania
- Grad School Navigator#10University rank
- QS=19Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#14Subject rank
- U.S. News#17Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Program duration
- 72 months
- 4
University of Chicago
- Grad School Navigator#11University rank
- QS#13Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#10Subject rank
- U.S. News#18Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Annual tuition
- $22,400
- Program duration
- 72 months
- 5
- Grad School Navigator#13University rank
- QS#21Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#29Subject rank
- U.S. News#43Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Program duration
- 84 months
- 6
Duke University
- Grad School Navigator#22University rank
- QS#24Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#40Subject rank
- U.S. News#33Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 1
- Program duration
- 84 months
- 7
Northwestern University
Doctor of Philosophy in German Literature and Critical Thought
- Grad School Navigator#23University rank
- QS=72Subject rank
- Times Higher Education101–125Subject rank
- U.S. News#46Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Jan 19
- Annual tuition
- $56,067
- Program duration
- 60 months
- 8
University of Washington
- Grad School Navigator#25University rank
- QS101–150Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#76Subject rank
- U.S. News#56Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Jan 5
- Annual tuition
- $33,171
- Program duration
- 72 months
- 9
Brown University
- Grad School Navigator#30University rank
- QS=44Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#54Subject rank
- U.S. News#106Subject rank
- Annual tuition
- $74,568
- Program duration
- 72 months
- 10
University of Pennsylvania
Doctor of Philosophy in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (AAMW)
- Grad School Navigator#10University rank
- QS=19Subject rank
- Times Higher Education#14Subject rank
- U.S. News#17Subject rank
- Application deadline
- Dec 15
- Annual tuition
- $46,540
- Program duration
- 72 months
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