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.

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.