87 PhD programmes in Linguistics in North America

The discipline of Linguistics at University of Georgia is the scientific analysis of the complex systems of language. It embraces phonology and phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics in the synchronic and diachronic study of contemporary as well as ancient languages.

The Educational Linguistics Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania focuses on language learning and teaching as well as the role of language in education.

The objectives of the Linguistics and Applied Linguistics PhD program at York University are to educate candidates in linguistics and applied linguistics. The program approaches the study of language from a variety of perspectives, with a primary focus on language in its social context. 

Based in the department of Linguistics and Languages at McMaster University, the PhD program in the Cognitive Science of Language is interdisciplinary and includes faculty from Humanities, Science, and Health Sciences.

The Department of Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley takes a broad approach to the study of language. 

Working closely with cultural anthropologists in the department, linguistic anthropologists examine how language use and choice shape the cultural and social diversity of communities and persons. We offer a Linguistic Anthropology degree at New York University. 

Take your language-teaching expertise—and your career—to the next level in our part-time Educational Linguistics doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Graduate Group in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania is an interdisciplinary team of faculty from the Department of Linguistics and related departments. Our program has strong concentrations in several areas and a tradition of collaboration among its faculty.

At the University of Washington, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Linguistics. Join us!

This Spanish - Hispanic Linguistics program from The University of Arizona is designed to train students to address a variety of scientific and scholarly questions pertaining to the study of the Spanish language from structural, societal, experimental, acquisitional, and pedagogical perspectives. 

The Linguistics program from The University of Arizona is designed to produce scholars who can carry out research on human language in any of its aspects within a contemporary theoretical framework, and which challenges, modifies, and extends contemporary theory.  

The PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Toronto offers comprehensive and rigorous training in an environment that encourages collaboration across the fields of Theoretical Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, and Psycholinguistics.

The Linguistics program from the New York University has a foreign language requirement. Our department does not offer any courses in applied linguistics.

Ph.D. students in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington build on coursework to establish themselves as experts in specific areas of language investigation.

Receive solid academic preparation, intensive professional development opportunities, and strong pedagogical training and teaching experiences, all with this Spanish Linguistics program at Arizona State University.

The program in Applied Linguistics is offered by University of Memphis. Past students have found positions in institutions of higher education, the US State Department and other governmental agencies, and in consulting in the multicultural workplace.

The PhD program in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University focuses on the scientific study of human language and the application of that study to the human condition.

Purdue University's Department of Linguistics offers a wide range of courses leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. M.A. and Ph.D. curricula encourage students to tailor their linguistics studies to their interdisciplinary interests. 

Close to one-half of the world’s six thousand languages are spoken in the Pacific and Asia — the particular geographic focus of our department. A large portion of these languages are either underdocumented or entirely undocumented, and many have small speaker populations. This Linguistics program is offered at University of Hawaii at Manoa.

The Department of Linguistics at University of Rochester invites applications from students interested in pursuing a fully-funded joint PhD program in linguistics focusing on cross-disciplinary training and collaboration.