The Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS) is a joint endeavour of the Freie Universität Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, and the Social Science Research Center Berlin.

It offers a rigorous and intense English-language PhD programme for exceptionally-talented graduate students in the field of transnational and international relations, broadly defined. The three-year programme has a strong focus on social science theories and methods, but also welcomes applications from adjacent disciplines such as history, economics, and law.