The college currently offers exclusive doctoral programs which lead to Ph.D. degrees.

Explore research themes at Peking Chemistry:

Core Chemistry

Emerging Chemical Engineering

Chemical Biology

Materials Chemistry

AI-Chemistry

Curriculum

The postgraduate curriculum contains a full list of training activities:

Compulsory training include academic ethics, scientific writing, laboratory safety, and frontier academic lectures. The programme also offers advanced topic courses and seminars, and also emphasises cultivating students’ teaching competencies.

Graduate students are encouraged to take courses across sub-disciplines and departments. Those with additional capacity are encouraged to choose high-level courses and interdisciplinary courses relevant to their research direction to enhance their scientific taste.

The program gradually removes the sub-discipline boundaries and customises training plans. Doctoral students can design customised training plans in consultation with their advisors based on their interests and future research areas, enabling the flexibility of the plans.

The college maintains high academic standards for awarding doctoral degrees. CCME strengthens the management of the doctoral training process, rigorously overseeing the general examinations, research proposals, mid-term evaluation, dissertation, and final defenses.

Research and Communication Resources

The college fosters a rich academic atmosphere through brand seminar series, such as the "Xingda Lectures" and "Xingda Student Invited Talk", inviting internationally renowned scholars from chemistry and related disciplines for lectures, thus broadening graduate students' academic horizons. The "Xingda Report" has held over 660 sessions and is a compulsory course for doctoral students.

Peking Chemistry also supports graduate-led academic forums and innovative activities, such as the "Physical Chemistry Graduate Frontier Forum", "Chemical Biology Graduate Frontier Forum", and "Chemistry Star and Chemistry Frontier Development Graduate Forum". The college enriches graduate academic communications with various resources such as the "Inorganic Chemistry Forum", "Organic OPSS Report", and "Soft Matter Science Series Report".

Additionally, PKU actively mobilises resources to promote students' participation in international academic exchanges and collaborations, encouraging graduate students to engage in domestic and international exchange programs, short-term academic visits, overseas research during summer and winter breaks, and collaborative research. The university also supports their involvement in open innovation experiments, entrepreneurship training programs, competitions, and other extracurricular learning and practice activities.