Distinctive Features
• Limited residency, distance learning format
Online, hybrid, and brief residency course formats provide flexibility for part-time students.
• Applied focus
The program enriches your understanding of the role of information in the knowledge economy and teaches you how to apply this expertise to enhance the effectiveness of information-based organizations in the public and private sectors. You will build a solid foundation for advanced levels of information research, and develop competencies in program evaluation research methods.
• Doctoral level research
Unique among practitioner-oriented doctoral degrees, the program is completed with a one-year thesis—a process through which you develop in-depth knowledge in a topic of your choice. The creation of a publication quality thesis can lead to recognition in your field through the production of a book, white papers, and other publications.
• A strong peer network
You will take classes with the same small group of students, in order to promote peer learning and support throughout the course of study.
• Interaction with Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology students
Ph.D. and professional doctorate students will share a blended learning environment: an overlap of intellectual domain and opportunities for resource-sharing through classes, writing groups, and editorial support.
• Customizable areas of study
Concentrations and fields of research can focus on any of the school’s disciplines, including technology planning, digital libraries, electronic commerce, telecommunications policy, global networking, cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, government information policy, knowledge management, among others.
• Marketability
Your degree from the U.S. News & World Report number one ranked library and information studies school in information systems will open doors to career opportunity.