Overview

The Rhetoric, Media, and Publics program at Northwestern University asks the fundamental question of how people influence, reflect, and transform society through mediated practices.

Features

Students learn to analyze the production and circulation of meaning in a range of rhetorical and journalistic texts, practices, and institutions through varied modes of qualitative inquiry, and to engage audiences and communities directly in the production of knowledge.

The stakes of this inquiry are profoundly social and political as well as formal and aesthetic. The program teaches students to approach public media as sites for political contestation, for the representation and interrogation of ethics and power, and for imagining personhood and collective life.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

History and Theory

The Practice of Public Scholarship

Making and Unmaking of Audiences and Publics

Media Theory

History of Media Technologies

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-21 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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100

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Credits

12 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Evanston, United States

Disciplines

Media Management Media Studies & Mass Media View 5 other PhDs in Media Management in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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100

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Other requirements

General requirements

Resume or CV

3 letters of recommendation, submitted online

Unofficial transcripts from each university you have attended, i.e. scanned copies. To note: The Graduate School will request official transcripts should you be admitted and choose to enroll.

Writing Sample (preferably something academic, such as a term paper, honors thesis or something equivalent) limited to 15-20 pages or less

GRE scores are not required. You may submit them if you wish. Official GRE scores should be sent by ETS to institution code 1565, the NU Graduate School. ETS will not report GRE scores more than 5 years old.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

9344 USD / year

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Out-of-State

9344 USD / year

≈ 9344 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

9344 USD / year

≈ 9344 USD / year

Living costs

Evanston

United States

1100 - 1500 USD / month

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Overview

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Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

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Academic requirements

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

Domestic

Living costs

Evanston

Funding

Scholarships Information

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