Masters

PhD
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  Rhetoric

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Since its inception in 1980, the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University has been preparing its graduates for positions at universities around the U.S. Of fifty-five Carnegie Mellon Rhetoric Ph.D.s, thirty-three hold or are retired from tenured or tenure-track positions and eight hold full-time university lecturer or research positions. Carnegie Mellon graduates are members of the faculty of English, rhetoric, and communications departments at these institutions, among others:

Arizona State University
Carnegie Mellon University
Colorado State University
Drexel University
Eastern Michigan University
Iowa State University
Kent State University
Louisiana State University
New Mexico State University
North Carolina State University
Purdue University
Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Rollins College
Texas Tech
The University of Colorado at Denver
The University of Idaho
The University of Memphis
The University of Notre Dame
The University of Pittsburgh
The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Utah
The University of Wisconsin
Washington State University
York University (Toronto)
Youngstown State University

Eight Carnegie Mellon Ph.D.s are researchers in government and industry, working for corporations and organizations such as Microsoft, Bell Northern Research (Canada), the Centers for Disease Control, the Bureau of Land Management, the Veterans' Administration Pittsburgh Healthcare System, and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories.

Other Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. graduates teach part time or have careers in community service. In short, our graduates have helped to define the field of rhetoric in the U.S. and have proven themselves marketable in both traditional and nontraditional settings.