PhD Film, Television, and Media at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

The PhD in Film, Television, and Media is a small, selective, interdisciplinary humanities program studying forms of representation produced for screens, spanning film studies, television studies and digital media studies. Admitted students receive five years of support, and the department does not offer a separate MA degree.

Faculty: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts  |  Department: Department of Film, Television, and Media  |  Intake: Fall; application deadline December 15  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Ann Arbor, MI, United States

What you will study

Students build individualised programs of study combining the department's work on cinema, television and digital media with courses across campus in fields such as History, Women's Studies, Communication Studies, American Culture, German Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, Romance Languages, Music and Comparative Literature. Students begin research with faculty in the first year.

Career pathways

Graduates have gone into tenure-track academic posts and into academic counselling, public relations and project management.

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