Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology

The Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology  is a research-oriented degree awarded for excellence in the advancement and dissemination of new knowledge, both basic and applied, about the design, use and evaluation of information systems, services, and policies for individuals, for groups, for private-sector firms, and for nonprofit and governmental organizations. Doctoral students in our program study in a wide range of areas, including:

• Information and Society: public policy, societal impacts and information technology (IT), e-government, the digital divide, media convergence, community networks, libraries
• Information and Organizations: IT management, e-commerce, technology-driven innovation/change, IT-enabled organizations
• Information and Education: digital literacy, e-learning, school library media, asynchronous learning networks
• Information and Individuals: human-computer interaction, information-seeking behavior, medical informatics
• Information Systems: design, survivability, security
• Information Organization and Access: metadata, representation, knowledge discovery, information retrieval, image retrieval
• Networked Information: digital libraries, distribution of public information, digital reference
• Information Technology: emerging technologies, wireless networks, natural language processing, middleware

Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship
These awards, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and designed to increase racial and ethnic diversity among our profession's next generation of library and information science leaders, provide full tuition and annual stipends of $20,000 to Fellows for the first two years of study.

For examples of research being done by Ph.D. students at the School of Information Studies, please see the list of PhD dissertation and proposal defense dates. (Word Doc)

Prospective students interested in communicating with recent graduates can view the alumni profiles.