236 PhD programmes in Language Studies in North America

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 Learning, Cognition, Instruction, and Development - Language Education degree at Rutgers University is concerned with the study of how learners acquire, use, develop, or change languages and how language teaching models may affect these areas.

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.

The Language and Literacies Education program at the University of Toronto is offered by the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree.

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

The PhD program in East Asian Languages and Civilization at Arizona State University is a research-intensive, transdisciplinary, area-based degree in the study of traditional and modern languages and cultures of China.

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.

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

The Department of English at Simon Fraser University has a selective PhD program. The first two years of the program are designed to provide a necessary grounding for students before they pursue their particular thesis project. 

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.

The Ph.D. degree in English from Kent State University permits students to focus on literary traditions and literary theory. 

Emory University’s PhD program in English is both intellectually adventuresome and collegial. Because the program is small and the faculty is deep and wide-ranging in its expertise, students receive close mentoring as they become innovative researchers and teachers in their own right.

We offer our graduate students a phd degree in Romance Languages at the University of Florida. Join us! 

The Ph.D. in English at the University of Houston engages international dialogues on poetics, narrative, history, and culture. 

The Department of English at Auburn University offers programs leading to the Master of Arts (MA), the Master of Technical and Professional Communication (MTPC), and the PhD.