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Most Popular Schools for Linguistics Major & Degree Program

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.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of California-Los Angeles 99 1% $34,620
2 The University of Texas at Arlington 78 1% $26,660
3 California State University-Long Beach 71 1% $24,738
4 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 69 1% $33,503
5 University of Florida 61 0% $21,211
6 Brigham Young University-Provo 56 1% $18,776
7 The University of Texas at Austin 53 0% $26,506
8 University of California-Berkeley 52 0% $38,066
9 Georgia State University 49 1% $26,014
10 San Diego State University 48 0% $29,318
11 Montclair State University 46 1% $31,704
12 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 45 0% $27,638
13 University of California-Santa Cruz 45 1% $36,217
14 California State University-Northridge 44 0% $22,969
15 Western Washington University 43 1% $24,077
16 Portland State University 40 1% $26,085
17 Stony Brook University 39 1% $26,091
18 University of Oregon 39 1% $27,366
19 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 39 0% $30,913
20 University of California-Davis 38 0% $35,177
21 University of California-Santa Barbara 37 1% $36,659
22 University of California-San Diego 34 0% $32,838
23 University of Colorado Boulder 34 0% $31,044
24 University of Utah 34 0% $24,472
25 Georgetown University 34 1% $73,840
26 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 34 0% $32,443
27 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 33 0% $30,102
28 University of Georgia 33 0% $26,688
29 University of California-Riverside 32 1% $35,242
30 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 31 0% $23,811
31 University of Kansas 31 0% $26,566
32 University of Arizona 30 0% $29,217
33 The University of Texas at El Paso 30 1% $23,843
34 University of North Texas 28 0% $24,712
35 California State University-Fullerton 27 0% $27,738
36 Boston University 26 0% $72,618
37 Florida Atlantic University 26 0% $24,235
38 Ohio University-Main Campus 26 0% $28,986
39 University at Buffalo 25 0% $27,758
40 California State University-Fresno 24 0% $21,418
41 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 23 0% $30,298
42 University of Chicago 23 1% $78,555
43 Indiana University-Bloomington 23 0% $24,779
44 Ohio State University-Main Campus 21 0% $27,367
45 University of Iowa 21 0% $24,239
46 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 21 0% $22,639
47 Michigan State University 20 0% $28,862
48 Binghamton University 20 0% $26,866
49 University of Maryland-College Park 20 0% $27,146
50 University of Kentucky 18 0% $30,101
51 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 18 0% $27,898
52 University of Delaware 18 0% $29,342
53 Tulane University of Louisiana 18 1% $72,296
54 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 17 0% $29,367
55 CUNY Queens College 17 0% $28,907
56 Hofstra University 17 1% $63,748
57 San Jose State University 16 0% $29,193
58 Eastern Michigan University 16 0% $26,196
59 Oakland University 16 0% $25,524
60 University of Hawaii at Hilo 16 2% $20,530
61 CUNY Graduate School and University Center 16 1% N/A
62 Yale University 15 0% $73,900
63 Teachers College at Columbia University 15 1% N/A
64 University of Missouri-Columbia 14 0% $26,766
65 Northeastern University 14 0% $70,592
66 Dartmouth College 14 1% $74,359
67 University of Vermont 14 0% $34,210
68 Iowa State University 13 0% $21,186
69 Cornell University 13 0% $73,904
70 Purdue University-Main Campus 13 0% $22,822
71 University of Wisconsin-Madison 13 0% $26,025
72 University of Rochester 13 0% $72,721
73 Brandeis University 13 1% $73,335
74 University of Connecticut 12 0% $32,404
75 University of South Florida-Main Campus 12 0% $23,320
76 University of Southern Maine 12 1% $22,968
77 Temple University 12 0% $33,004
78 Baylor University 12 0% $62,527
79 Benedictine University 12 1% $50,006
80 Northeastern Illinois University 12 1% $31,531
81 Wayne State University 11 0% $27,157
82 Swarthmore College 11 3% $71,167
83 University of North Dakota 11 0% $22,091
84 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 11 0% $29,097
85 New York University 11 0% $73,566
86 Reed College 11 4% $73,207
87 University of Illinois at Chicago 11 0% $30,866
88 Washington University in St Louis 10 0% $74,361
89 Carleton College 10 2% $71,325
90 Emory University 10 0% $69,502
91 University of Central Arkansas 10 0% $22,563
92 Metropolitan State University of Denver 10 0% $9,066
93 Syracuse University 10 0% $70,636
94 Cedarville University 9 1% $40,648
95 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 9 0% $24,486
96 Harvard University 9 0% $71,650
97 The University of Texas at San Antonio 9 0% $23,715
98 SUNY at Albany 8 0% $26,734
99 University of South Carolina-Columbia 8 0% $28,301
100 Stanford University 8 0% $71,587

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Linguistics program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.