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.
| A major in Linguistics is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 50
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Linguistics among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | California State University-Monterey Bay
Seaside, CA | 18
(2.8%) |  |  | |
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| | University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, HI | 13
(2.5%) | | | |
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| | Reed College
Portland, OR | 7
(2.3%) |  |  | |
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| | Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA | 8
(2.1%) |  | | |
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| | Earlham College
Richmond, IN | 5
(1.8%) |  |  | |
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| | Lawrence University
Appleton, WI | 5
(1.7%) | | | |
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| | University of Chicago
Chicago, IL | 19
(1.6%) | | | |
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| | Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN | 7
(1.6%) | | | |
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| | Georgetown University
Washington, DC | 25
(1.4%) | | | |
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| | University of California-Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA | 38
(1.1%) | | - | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.