218 Full-time PhD programmes in Linguistics

At The University of Alabama, the Romance Languages, PhD program faculty mentor students in all aspects of their graduate experience, including coursework, teaching, examinations, and writing of doctoral dissertations. 

The International Experimental and Clinical Linguistics program at University of Potsdam offers innovative instruction, combining linguistic knowledge with interdisciplinary research and an international orientation.

The Department of English at the University of Ottawa offers the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy in English. The program equips students to pursue advanced studies in British, Canadian, or American literature informed by a broad knowledge of literary history and by recent developments in literary criticism and cultural theory. 

The research of our doctoral students and postdocs in this Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks programme at Leipzig University focuses on the interaction of rules, operations, constraints, schemes etc. in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax.

The Linguistics Ph.D. program at Stanford University emphasizes rigorous theoretical work that has at its base a firm empirical foundation in language data. 

The Linguistics doctoral program at The University of New Mexico requires a minimum of 48 semester hours of graduate credit coursework in linguistics. This minimum requirement may include up to 30 hours of master's degree credit (including thesis). 

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Linguistics - Language Acquisition offered by the Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University is a research-intensive program that emphasizes specialized and well-researched learning opportunities.

The University at Buffalo's Linguistics Department offers a comprehensive program covering the major areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax and discourse/pragmatics. The Linguistics  program is offered at The University at Buffalo .

The MA and the PhD in Linguistics are awarded by the Graduate College at The University of Iowa. Instruction is offered through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 

Through the Modern Languages MA by Res  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.

In this Linguistics programme at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, you will gain advanced, detailed knowledge related to this area of research.

The Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University offers graduate work leading to MA and PhD degrees.

Staff at the Finno-Ugric Languages section of the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University have wide interests covering the whole Finno-Ugric language family, ranging from Scandinavia to Siberia.

Linguistics is the scientific study of language in all its aspects. At the University of South Carolina these issues are investigated from diverse perspectives, including biological, cognitive, developmental, educational, historical and sociocultural ones.

In this PhD Linguistics program at University of Victoria, you’ll study linguistics, building a broad and deep understanding of language.

The Cognitive Science and Language programme offered by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona develops advanced research expertise through interdisciplinary study of linguistics, cognition, and philosophy.

The PhD in Linguistics at Boston University aims to produce scholars who are versatile enough to be experts in both of these aspects of linguistic inquiry, yet skilled enough to do cutting-edge research in a particular subfield of the discipline.

PhD studies in English at Karlstad University may be pursued with a specialisation in linguistics or literature, and admitted PhD candidates have the opportunity to design their dissertation projects within either of these subject areas.

The nexus between people and language is where most sociolinguistic research takes place, and at the University of Liverpool, research in Sociolinguistics focuses in particular on the relationship between society and language, drawing on expertise from Modern Languages.

As part of its service to the University of Florida community, Linguistics also offers English as a Second Language training for international applicants and admitted students.