The Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology (founded in 1969, formerly known as Ph.D. in Information Transfer) at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies is one of the finest interdiscipinary PhD programs in the information field in the nation. It addresses information-related phenomena in all settings: individual, organizational, societal, political, and technical. The Information Science and Technology PhD program is interdisciplinary, bringing together relevant knowledge and methods from information science, behavioral and social sciences, management science, computer science, law and public policy.
The Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology is a full time, residency based 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, groups, private-sector firms, nonprofit and governmental organizations. PhD 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