33 PhD programmes in Media Studies & Mass Media in North America

The PhD in Mass Communication is awarded by the Graduate College at The University of Iowa. The program is offered in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The Film and Media Studies Ph.D. program at University of California, Irvine (UCI) is dedicated to understanding film, television, and digital media texts in relation to questions of power, inequality, and difference.

The Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University continues the historical leadership in the cultural and critical analysis of film, television, and emerging media by integrating interdisciplinary opportunities both within the School of Communication and across the University. 

At the Yale University we offer our graduate students a phd degree in German Studies - Film and Media Studies. 

The Fielding Graduate University PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in Media prepares students to work at the intersection of psychology theories and media technologies.

The Media, Technology, and Society program is an innovative, interdisciplinary, and flexible curriculum focusing on the dynamic media and technology environment and its impact.

The Cultural Mediations PhD program at Carleton University finds its home in the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, known as ICSLAC. 

The Ph.D. in Communication Studies - Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University is specifically designed to provide students with the conceptual and methodological tools to study the complex and vastly expanded moving image environment of the 21st century, where the boundaries separating cinema, television and new media are breaking down.

The PhD in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental degree that stresses the history, theory, and aesthetics of international cinema, video, television, and new media.

The Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media at North Carolina State University prepares students to analyze the social, cultural, rhetorical, philosophical, and political dimensions of information technologies, new communication media, and digital texts, and to actively engage digital media through research, criticism, production, and practice.

The School of Communication at The Ohio State University offers a unique graduate program for studying the underlying mechanisms and theoretical explanations for communication phenomena.

The Media Study program from the University at Buffalo is one of the country's leading programs in experimental and independent media. Our focus area is experimental and radical uses of media in the arts and in society at large. 

The Ph.D Mass Communication degree at University of Oklahoma allows students to examine more deeply the theories that underlie mass communication and to critique mass communication practices.