220 PhD programmes in Linguistics

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 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.

Welcome to the the doctoral programme in German offered at the University of Kwazulu Natal. We are here to help you! 

This Linguistics PhD programme provided by Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, offers advanced specialization in linguistic analysis and related research areas, with opportunities for international collaboration and dual degree attainment.

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.

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

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) PhD programme at the University of Amsterdam is designed to support and guide PhD candidates in their track to become highly qualified scientific researchers in the areas described by the institute's research mission.

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 doctoral study programme is intended for outstanding graduates of the consecutive (follow-up) English Philology master's degree and related programmes at the University of Ostrava. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Cyclic Optimization researchers from the Institute of Linguistics at Leipzig University are investigating the empirical scope of models combining cyclicity and optimization, and hope to extend this to a comprehensive, representative subdomain of grammatical phenomena and unlock the full theoretical potential of these approaches.

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 and Language research portfolio at the University of Brighton is evolving rapidly with enthusiastic and dedicated supervision for PhD work in linguistics and related language studies across a number of specialisms.

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. 

This Afrikaans (Research) programme is offered by the Department of Language, Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.

This Applied Linguistics programme is offered by the Department of Language, Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.

The Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University helps prepare scholars who will conduct systematic examinations of individual and societal multilingualism in order to build and test theories of how linguistic systems develop, are acquired, used, and taught in global contexts.