463 Full-time PhD programmes in Language Studies

Unlock your potential with a English and Creative Writing programme at the University of Chichester.

The Spanish programme offered by Queen's University Belfast develops advanced expertise in Hispanic and Latin American languages, literatures, histories, and cultures, preparing researchers to investigate diverse cultural, linguistic, and artistic traditions across the Spanish-speaking world.

Doctoral candidates in French at Rutgers University receive rigorous and broad training in various aspects of French language, literature in and outside France, theory, literary and cultural criticism, and cinema.

The maximum number of Italian course credits required is 48, of which at least 27 must be taken at Rutgers University. There is also a minimum requirement of 24 research credits. 

This Afrikaans degree programme is offered by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

The doctoral study programme is intended for outstanding graduates of the consecutive (follow-up) English Philology master's degree and related programmes at the University of Ostrava. 

Throughout the Italian Studies MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter all students have a primary and a secondary supervisor who provide regular, high quality advice, support and direction in their academic endeavours. You will work closely with your supervisors to develop, investigate and write-up a project at the cutting edge of research.

Pursuing a Ph.D. in English at University of Nevada, Reno allows students to explore the intricacies of language, literature, theory and culture at the highest level.

English is one of the largest Ph.D. programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State University and it prepares students to enter into the academic profession.

The objectives of the Linguistics and Applied Linguistics PhD program at York University are to educate candidates in linguistics and applied linguistics. The program approaches the study of language from a variety of perspectives, with a primary focus on language in its social context. 

The PhD program in Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa was established in 1989. 

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at University of Alberta offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. 

Students in the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English program at the University of Manitoba will develop a higher degree of specialization and advanced training in research and application in English literature.

The PhD program in English (Writing, Rhetorics and Literacies) at Arizona State University promotes the study of rhetorical strategies, production, distribution and interpretation of oral, written, digital, visual, discursive, material and symbolic texts.

The Linguistics and Language research portfolio at the University of Brighton is evolving rapidly with enthusiastic and dedicated supervision for PhD work in linguistics and related language studies across a number of specialisms.

The Humanities and Languages Doctoral School is comprised of four joint research units and nine reception teams from the University of Tours and the University of Orleans.

The Department of English at University of Saskatchewan provides graduate training in literary studies towards M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.

Our English PhD program at University of Rochester offers students a rare combination of close interaction with faculty and personalized courses of study, with the wide array of intellectual, scholarly, and cultural opportunities that define a major research institution such as ours. 

This Afrikaans (Research) programme is offered by the Department of Language, Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.

The German graduate curriculum at Johns Hopkins University is unique in its dual emphasis on critical theory and cultural phenomena from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries.