463 Full-time PhD programmes in Language Studies

The African Languages specialization areas at Stellenbosch University available for  PhD  study are  similar, and/ or related to those   described  for the Master's degree  Programme above.

The Department of Romance Languages at University of Georgia offers MAs and PhDs in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish-language cultural studies, linguistics, and literature, with a focus on interdisciplinary study, close mentorship, and professional training.

Students admitted to Writing and Rhetoric Studies program at University of Utah enter an exciting environment of intellectual pursuit, where the exchange of ideas is vibrant. 

Within the Languages and Cultures programme from University of Essex we aim to provide our research students with work and storage space, including laboratory facilities and access to online bibliographies, corpora and other resources.

Yale University’s Ph.D. Program in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the offers training in a wide variety of topics and areas that intersect on the terrains of ethnography and contemporary social and cultural theory. 

The Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers a Ph.D. degree in the areas of literature studies, creative writing, and composition and rhetoric.

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

Our research on Turkic Languages at Uppsala University focuses on philological and linguistic investigations of historical and modern Turkic languages with the broadest possible coverage.

Studying for your PhD in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at University of Leeds means that you'll become an expert in a specialist area and develop high-quality research skills, which will prepare you for further research projects in addition to pursuing specialist career paths.

The Languages programme offered by Manchester Metropolitan University enables researchers to deepen their expertise and develop advanced research and practical skills across modern languages, translation, linguistics, and intercultural studies.

The graduate program in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures from University of California, Berkeley is designed for future scholars and teachers in the fields of Scandinavian language, literature, and cultural history.

At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), we offer a phd degree in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. 

University of Wisconsin Madison offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Japanese, specializing either in linguistics or in literature and culture. 

At University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, we offer courses on topics in German and Scandinavian languages, literatures, and cultures across all periods, including historical and synchronic Germanic linguistics, and German language pedagogy. 

The French faculty at the University of Pittsburgh is a community of scholars and teachers committed to breaking down the borders between disciplines, time periods, and geographic contexts

Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin Madison is a national leader of doctoral programs in the field, and welcomes students with a B.A./B.S. or M.A. who are interested in all areas of Russian and comparative Slavic prose, poetry, drama, and philosophy. 

The graduate program in English at the University of Virginia has long been a distinguished one. At a time of rapid transition in the field of literary and cultural studies, we are intent upon sustaining our offerings in traditional historical periods, elaborating those in diverse world literatures, and engaging fully with the spectrum of current theoretical concerns. 

At the West Virginia University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in English. Each graduate program sets their own term of admission and application deadline.

The English and Creative Writing degree at University of Roehampton aims to provide its research students with the opportunity to study in a stimulating, responsive, supportive environment, which fosters independent, critical thinking.

Applicants for admission to the PhD program in English at The University of Alabama are required to take the general test and the written test of the Graduate Record Examination.