Here is an (incomplete) list of research institutes offering PhD programs in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy and related fields. See, also the list of Graduate schools in India.


Research areas in each institution are marked within square brackets:
Exp Experimental GW physics
DA Gravitational-wave data analysis and astronomy
NR Numerical relativity
AR Analytical relativity
Astro Relativistic astrophysics

In North America

• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA [Exp DA NR AR Astro]
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA [Exp DA AR Astro]
• Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA [DA Astro]
• Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA [Exp Astro]
• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA [NR AR Astro]
• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA [NR AR Astro]
• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA [Exp DA NR AR]
• Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA [DA Astro]
• Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA [Exp DA]
• Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA [DA Astro]
• University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA [Exp DA NR AR Astro]
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA [Exp DA]
• NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA [Exp DA NR]
• Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA [DA NR]
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA [DA AR Astro]
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA [Exp DA]
• The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA [Exp DA AR Astro]
• The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA [NR]
• The University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA [Exp DA]
• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 [NR Astro]
• Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA [ DA NR]
• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA [Exp DA AR]
• University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA [ DA]
• University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA [Exp DA]
• University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA [Exp]
• Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA [DA AR]
• Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA [DA]
• University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada [NR AR]
• Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Ontario, M5S 3H8, Canada [DA NR Astro]
• University of California, Riverside [Exp] jwr (AT) caltech.edu

In Europe

• Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany [Exp DA NR AR]
• Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom [DA NR AR]
• University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom [Exp DA Astro]
• University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom [Exp DA]
• University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom [NR AR]
• National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef), Amsterdam, Netherlands [Exp DA]
• LAL, University of Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, F-91898 Orsay, France [Exp DA]
• Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Jena, Germany [NR AR]
• University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany [AR Astro]
• The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom [Exp DA]
• Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain [ DA NR]
• Institute of Astrophysics, Paris, France. [AR]
• Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France [AR]

In Asia

• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan [Exp DA]
• Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan [ NR ]
• Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan [Exp ]

In Australia

• Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia [Exp]
• University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia [Exp DA ]
• The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia [Astro]
• University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia [Exp]