Masters and Doctoral Programs
See a listing of the many liberal arts Master's and Doctoral programs below. For the most current information and details on applying to graduate school, please visit the Purdue University Graduate School.
Anthropology
With a diversified faculty, the Purdue graduate program offers training in the anthropology of religion, semiotics, gender, kinship, economic anthropology, the archaeology of Mesoamerica, South America, the Nile Valley and Central Asia, archaeometry, bioarchaeology, medical anthropology, human health and aging, women's health, reproductive ecology and primate behavioral studies. The courses taken during the first two years develop a four-field foundation for subsequent specialized research.
The student (in conjunction with his/her major professor and advisory committee) will develop a Plan of Study with considerable depth in selected areas of specialization using courses and seminars in this department as well as other departments.
Communication Areas of Graduate Study
Health Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Media, Technology, and Society
Organizational Communication
Public Affairs / Issue Management
Rhetorical Studies
Communication and Philosophy joint Ph.D. program
English Areas of Graduate Study
Creative Writing
English as a Second Language
English Language & Linguistics
Literary Studies
Medieval
Renaissance
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century
Twentieth & Twenty-First Century
Rhetoric and Composition
Theory and Cultural Studies
Foreign Language and Literatures Areas of Graduate Study
French
German
Spanish
Japanese
Applied Linguistics
Health and Kinesiology Areas of Graduate Study
Masters Degree level
Public Health
Movement and Sport Science
Health Promotion
Pedagogy and Administration
Health and Fitness
Doctor of Philosophy level
Physiology of Exercise, Human Movement, and Sport
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, and Motor Behavior
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Pedagogy of Physical Activity and Health
History Areas of Graduate Study
United States History
European History
Global History
Philosophy Areas of Graduate Study
The graduate program in philosophy at Purdue offers its students the opportunity to pursue an unusually diversified and well-balanced plan of study. The department maintains a long pluralistic tradition with strengths in the history of philosophy and both analytic and Continental European philosophy. Students acquire a solid grounding in four traditional areas of philosophy, the history of philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology, value theory, and logic, language and science, before developing their own specialized research programs.
Political Science Areas of Graduate Study
Political Behavior and Institutions
Comparative Politics
International Politics
Political Theory
Public Policy & Public Administration
Psychology Areas of Graduate Study
Clinical
Cognitive
Developmental
Industrial-Organizational
Learning and Memory
Psychobiology
Quantitative-Mathematical
Social
Sociology Areas of Graduate Study
At the PhD level students select from a broad range of specialty areas, including social stratification, social psychology, and social change. Sociology students may also concentrate in one of the following five fields of sociological specialization in the department: family, sex and gender; health and aging; law and society; politics and economy; and religion.
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Areas of Study
Speech and language pathology
Diagnostic and rehabilitative Audiology
Speech and language acquisition
Linguistics
Augmentative and alternative communication
Speech and hearing physiology
Experimental phonetics
Psychoacoustics
Bioacoustics
Neuroscience
Visual and Performing Arts
Master of Fine Art
Studio Arts Disciplines
Ceramics
Jewelry and Metals
Drawing and Painting
Photography and Related
Media
Printmaking
Sculpture
Woven Textile Design and Fiber Arts
Design Disciplines
Industrial Design
Interior Design
Visual Communications Design
Theatre
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Scene Design
Professional Actor Training
Technical Direction
Master of Art
Art Education
Doctorate (Ph.D.)
Art Education (administered through the Purdue College of Education)
Interdisciplinary Studies Areas of Study
American Studies
Comparative Literature (British, Chinese, French, German, Classical Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, American literature, and also Cultural Studies, Feminist Thought, Folklore, Literary Theory, Philosophy of Aesthetics, Postcolonial Studies, Queer Studies, Rhetoric, and Visual Culture)
Linguistics
Philosophy and Literature Ph.D. Program