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Doctor of Information
The Ph.D. is the highest degree awarded by the University of Michigan. It signifies that you have successfully mastered a body of skills and knowledge in preparation for a career as an independent scholar. Doctoral training involves working closely with faculty on projects of mutual interest, since mastery of research methods requires hands-on experience.
The School of Information is an excellent environment for pursuing your doctoral studies. Faculty are active in research, pursuing projects in many different areas, using many different methods. The School has exceptional facilities and equipment, and through its faculty projects, has access to many off-campus research sites.
How to apply to the Ph.D. program
Doctoral Student Funding
All Ph.D. students in the School of Information are guaranteed four years of funding, provided they are making satisfactory progress toward their degree. This includes tuition and stipend for four fall and winter terms and year-round health benefits. Funding also includes a stipend for two summer terms. Additional funding may be available.
Also, each year several SI doctoral students are awarded fellowships with the STIET program, a strong cross-school community of scholars who are addressing issues related to electronic transactions. STIET fellowships provide tuition plus a stipend for two years of funding.
Program Objectives
The doctoral program is a full-time course of study, typically four years post-baccalaureate. The program of study leading to the doctoral degree is organized to attain the following objectives:
- To enable you to engage in advanced study and research with scholars in a variety of information fields, such as economics of information, human-computer interaction, library and information services, organizational issues, archives and records management, new systems architecture, digital libraries, information systems management, and digital documents/digital publishing
- To foster original and scholarly research that contributes to all of these fields
- To enable you to integrate your professional education and experience with the larger problems of the information professions
SI doctoral students, by virtue of their education, leadership potential, professional experience, and interest in research, show promise of making significant contributions to the information professions in teaching, research, and administration.
Admission is offered once a year. The application deadline is Jan. 5 for study starting the following September.
Last updated: Oct 21, 2009
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Fellowships: Apply!
We encourage you to learn more about these fellowship programs and, should you decide to apply to them, to do so as you are in the process of applying to the doctoral program at SI.
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Students with research interests in scientific data management, sharing, and reuse may participate in the Open Data fellowship program. Open Data is an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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This program aims to strengthen Ph.D.-level education in archival studies. Michigan is one of eight institutions with a participating doctoral program.
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The U.S. Department of Education provides fellowships to a select group of "students of superior academic ability."
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The NSF offers 900 to 1,600 three-year fellowships annually to research-based degree programs for students "in the early stages of their graduate study."
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STIET is a multidisciplinary doctoral fellowship program for scholars interested in the social and technical aspects of online transactions and incentive-centered design.
The research interests of doctoral student Ricky Punzalan include archives and collective memory. His current research includes exploring the role of visual archives in representing, remembering and understanding leprosy, its relationship with the formation and propagation of stigma and its context within the wider discourse of social memory of the disease.
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