220 PhD programmes in Linguistics

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. 

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.

The Applied Linguistics (Online) programme from University of Nottingham offers a fascinating opportunity to study the interaction between language and the real world.

Language and Policy is a key topic within the Language and Literacies Research Cluster at The Open University UK.

We offer supervision for our PhD Applied Linguistics at University of Essex in the area of second language acquisition and learning.

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. 

This Linguistic Studies and Foreign Literatures PhD degree from University of Pisa is one of three doctoral courses offered by the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa, each with the goal to promote, organize and manage activities related to high-quality research projects within the area of the human sciences. 

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 PhD in English, Culture and Communication programme from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University aims to help candidates produce academic results that contribute to the discipline and wider communities. We equip our students with theories and skills, provide academic support, and link them with industry, society and the globe.

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.

The Linguistics programme offered by Manchester Metropolitan University enables researchers to deepen their expertise and develop advanced research and practical skills in language, communication, information, and digital environments.

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. 

Our research on Turkic Languages at Uppsala University focuses on philological and linguistic investigations of historical and modern Turkic languages with the broadest possible coverage.

The Linguistics programme offered by Stockholm University develops advanced research expertise in the structure, variation, and use of language across different modalities and contexts.

The Linguistics programme offered by University of Gothenburg develops advanced research expertise in language, communication, and linguistic interaction.