463 Full-time PhD programmes in Language Studies

The French and Francophone Studies Graduate Program at University of California, Davis provides graduate students with a strong base of historical coverage, spanning from the Middle Ages to the present, including Francophone studies. 

The Urban Education: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language specialization at Cleveland State University (CSU) accepts applicants who are fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English, and prepares them to teach and support teachers whose specialty is or will be teaching Chinese to students with a first language other than Chinese, and/or decision-makers charged with administration of such a program.

One of the strongest and most diversified graduate English programs in North America, the University of Toronto’s Graduate English Department presents a wide array of approaches to the study of literature that includes both rigorous historical scholarship and the innovations of new theoretical, cultural, and interdisciplinary methods.

University of New Brunswick's celebrated English graduate programs offer both creative writing and academic streams of study, helping students reach both their creative and critical potential.

Welsh at Aberystwyth University combines taught modules with research conducted by students under the supervision of AU staff who have expertise in the topic of study.

Purdue University's School of Languages and Cultures offers graduate degrees in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. 

The Department of English at Indiana University Bloomington is the home of a nationally ranked doctoral program in English - Literature and Language, with world-class faculty in all areas of research.

At the Indiana University Bloomington, we offer our graduate students a doctoral degree in French. Join us! 

The nationally ranked Ph.D. program in English Language and Literature at the University of Maryland provides specialized training in literary, cultural and language studies for students who plan to teach at universities and colleges. 

The Purdue University Department of English offers a diverse, robust, and challenging program of graduate study. 

Develop original research into literature and language, from the medieval period to the present day, guided by our expert staff. We offer a English (Online) phd degree at the University of Nottingham. 

The Ph.D. program in English at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is the number 1 department for literary and critical theory nationally. The research and teaching of department faculty represents and cuts across a range of fields, historical periods, and methodological approaches.

Modern Languages and Cultures continues to extend research activity over a broad range of areas in Iberian and Latin American Studies. We offer a Hispanic Studies degree at University of Liverpool.

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

This African Languages (Research) programme is offered by the Department of African Languages within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.

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

The English program at Louisiana State University trains students to become expert researchers, writers, editors, and teachers.

The Slavic Languages program from Columbia University is rigorous, requiring extensive study of the literature from the middle ages to the present, with some fundamental grounding in the region's history, linguistics, and culture.

Columbia's Department of English and Comparative Literature has played a significant role in the history of literary study in the United States and abroad since its inception. The English and Comparative Literature program is offered by Columbia University.

At the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Spanish.