Linguistics

A program that focuses on language, language development, and relationships among languages and language groups from a humanistic and/or scientific perspective. Includes instruction in subjects such as psycholinguistics, behavioral linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, mathematical and computational linguistics, grammatical theory and theoretical linguistics, philosophical linguistics, philology and historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, phonetics, phonemics, dialectology, semantics, functional grammar and linguistics, language typology, lexicography, morphology and syntax, orthography, stylistics, structuralism, rhetoric, and applications to artificial intelligence.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 161 institutions across the United States, with a total of 8850 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

2,053

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

501

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

214

degrees awarded

Other Awards

5,929

awards given

Top Schools for Linguistics

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	280
2	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	240
3	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	225
4	Georgetown University Washington, DC	213
5	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	196
6	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	183
7	Montclair State University Montclair, NJ	180
8	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	168
9	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	168
10	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	150
11	University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA	144
12	University of Georgia Athens, GA	141
13	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	135
14	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	134
15	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	132
16	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	132
17	University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA	132
18	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	129
19	The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX	127
20	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	123
21	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	117
22	Boston University Boston, MA	117
23	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	111
24	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	111
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	102
26	Binghamton University Vestal, NY	99
27	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	93
28	Western Washington University Bellingham, WA	93
29	University of Oregon Eugene, OR	93
30	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	92
31	The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX	90
32	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	90
33	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	90
34	Georgia State University Atlanta, GA	87
35	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	87
36	University of North Texas Denton, TX	84
37	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	84
38	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	78
39	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	75
40	San Diego State University San Diego, CA	72
41	William & Mary Williamsburg, VA	69
42	Benedictine University Lisle, IL	69
43	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	69
44	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	69
45	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	66
46	CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, NY	66
47	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	66
48	Teachers College at Columbia University New York, NY	60
49	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL	60
50	California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA	60
51	Yale University New Haven, CT	60
52	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI	57
53	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	57
54	Iowa State University Ames, IA	57
55	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	57
56	University of Delaware Newark, DE	57
57	University of Southern Maine Portland, ME	57
58	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	57
59	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	54
60	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	54
61	California State University-Northridge Northridge, CA	54
62	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	54
63	Stanford University Stanford, CA	54
64	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	51
65	Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA	51
66	CUNY Queens College Queens, NY	51
67	San Jose State University San Jose, CA	51
68	Portland State University Portland, OR	51
69	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	48
70	Oakland University Rochester Hills, MI	48
71	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI	48
72	CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College New York, NY	48
73	California State University-Fresno Fresno, CA	45
74	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	45
75	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	45
76	University of Kentucky Lexington, KY	45
77	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	42
78	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	42
79	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK	42
80	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	42
81	Long Beach City College Long Beach, CA	42
82	Wayne State University Detroit, MI	39
83	Duke University Durham, NC	39
84	Saint Joseph's University Philadelphia, PA	36
85	Monterey Peninsula College Monterey, CA	34
86	Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA	33
87	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	33
88	University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR	33
89	Rice University Houston, TX	33
90	Northeastern University Boston, MA	33
91	Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI	30
92	The University of Montana Missoula, MT	30
93	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	30
94	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	30
95	Reed College Portland, OR	30
96	University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque, NM	27
97	CUNY Lehman College Bronx, NY	27
98	The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX	27
99	Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH	27
100	Liberty University Lynchburg, VA	27