Welcome | Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
Writing your PhD at BTS
The Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS) is a joint endeavour of the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), the Hertie School of Governance (HSoG), and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).
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.
moreBerlin's role model
Gert Wagner from DIW Berlin and Michael Zürn from WZB that the BTS, for example, should serve as a role model for PhD training in Berlin. more
Gert Wagner from DIW Berlin and Michael Zürn from WZB that the BTS, for example, should serve as a role model for PhD training in Berlin. more
Inauguration and Poster Presentation
The BTS has welcomed its incoming PhDs by a talk of Michael Zürn on democratic legitimacy of international organisations and a poster presentation of its 2nd year PhDs. more
The BTS has welcomed its incoming PhDs by a talk of Michael Zürn on democratic legitimacy of international organisations and a poster presentation of its 2nd year PhDs. more



