The PhD Data Science program at Superior University is a research-intensive 3-year doctoral degree preparing scholars and researchers to make original, significant contributions to data science and AI. The program focuses on deep learning theory and novel architectures, causal machine learning and counterfactual reasoning, federated learning and privacy-preserving machine learning, natural language processing and large language models, graph neural networks, time series and forecasting, computational social science, and big data systems research. Students complete advanced coursework, comprehensive examinations, and original doctoral dissertations with expert supervision — preparing PhD graduates for academic leadership, research directorships, and AI innovation roles in industry.