27 PhD programmes in Media Studies & Mass Media in United States

The Media, Technology, and Society program is an innovative, interdisciplinary, and flexible curriculum focusing on the dynamic media and technology environment and its impact.

The Ph.D. in Communication Studies - Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University is specifically designed to provide students with the conceptual and methodological tools to study the complex and vastly expanded moving image environment of the 21st century, where the boundaries separating cinema, television and new media are breaking down.

The PhD in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental degree that stresses the history, theory, and aesthetics of international cinema, video, television, and new media.

The Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media at North Carolina State University prepares students to analyze the social, cultural, rhetorical, philosophical, and political dimensions of information technologies, new communication media, and digital texts, and to actively engage digital media through research, criticism, production, and practice.

The School of Communication at The Ohio State University offers a unique graduate program for studying the underlying mechanisms and theoretical explanations for communication phenomena.

The Media Study program from the University at Buffalo is one of the country's leading programs in experimental and independent media. Our focus area is experimental and radical uses of media in the arts and in society at large. 

The Ph.D Mass Communication degree at University of Oklahoma allows students to examine more deeply the theories that underlie mass communication and to critique mass communication practices.