87 PhD programmes in Linguistics in North America

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

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University is a response to societal needs resulting from the status of English as the language of international communication.

Students in the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English program at the University of Manitoba will develop a higher degree of specialization and advanced training in research and application in English literature.

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures has one of the premier comprehensive graduate programs in the country. The Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and Management program is offered by The Ohio State University.

The joint degree in Anthropology and Linguistics from The University of Arizona is designed for students with interests in both departments who would emerge from the program as job candidates for both linguistics and anthropology departments. Both the School of Anthropology and Department of Linguistics offer teaching assistantships and research support for students in the joint Ph.D. program. 

The PhD with a major in modern foreign languages requires advanced training in a major language (French, German, Spanish) and either a second language (French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish), applied linguistics or Latin American Studies. The Modern Foreign Languages program is offered by the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

The Bilingualism and 2nd Language Acquisition course at Rutgers University is aimed at students of Spanish linguistics with an interest in acquiring a strong background in the cognitive foundations of language and research methodology and a desire to apply this new-found knowledge to real-world situations where Spanish is in contact with other languages. 

The English Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland is a dynamic and productive community of full-time faculty members engaged in active research programs, graduate supervision, and publication of literary scholarship and creative writing.

The PhD degree program in Linguistics is offered by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba and is strongly research-oriented.

PhD Linguistics students at the University of Pittsburgh are working side-by-side with our faculty on highly specialized research into phonetics, African-American English, language contact, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.

Yale University’s Ph.D. Program in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the offers training in a wide variety of topics and areas that intersect on the terrains of ethnography and contemporary social and cultural theory. 

The Sargent College doctoral program in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Boston University is designed for students who want to take leadership roles as independent researchers and scholars in speech, language, or hearing science.

Because language is a window into the mind. The Linguistics program from University of Kansas provides an understanding of the human capacity to acquire, perceive, and produce language and of language’s role in contemporary society.

This Applied Language and Speech Sciences doctoral program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is designed to produce research professors for colleges and universities and/or researchers for schools, clinics, and hospitals.

The Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland aims to train students to conduct research on second language acquisition processes.

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland plays a leading role in the largest and most integrated language science research community in North America.

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

Welcome to doctoral studies in Educational Linguistics at The University of New Mexico! This manual is designed to help you understand and successfully complete the steps necessary to finish the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Education with a concentration in Educational Linguistics at UNM.

The Linguistics PhD degree at University of Utah is awarded for high achievement in an advanced specialized field of study, and requires competence in independent research and an understanding of related subjects. 

Linguistics at the University of British Columbia is a highly interdisciplinary field which combines research methods from the humanities and the social, natural, and mathematical sciences.