<p>I would like to know :)</p>
<p>There is an old ranking from NRC. UIUC ranked 18. I think it is pretty good.</p>
<p>Linguistics </p>
<p>1 MIT 4.79
2 Stanford 4.59
3 UCLA 4.56
4 Massachusetts 4.44
5 Penn 4.16
6 Chicago 3.97
7 Cal Berkeley 3.97
8 Ohio State 3.80
9 Cornell 3.78
10 Cal Santa Cruz 3.66
11 Texas 3.61
12 Southern Cal 3.58
13 Arizona 3.58
14 Cal San Diego 3.43
15 CUNY 3.41
16 Connecticut 3.36
17 Washington 3.16
18 Illinois 3.10
19 Georgetown 3.00
20 Brown 2.94
21 Harvard 2.92
22 SUNY Buffalo 2.87
23 Pittsburgh 2.83
24 SUNY Stony Brook 2.82
25 Hawaii Manoa 2.79
26 Oregon 2.68
27 Indiana 2.66
28 Delaware 2.60
29 Boston University 2.60
30 Yale 2.57
31 Michigan 2.37
32 Wisconsin 2.20
33 Colorado 2.15
34 South Carolina 1.91
35 Kansas 1.91
36 NYU 1.84
37 Florida 1.78
38 Michigan State 1.76
39 Rice 1.72
40 Texas Arlington 1.26
41 Indiana Univ Pennsylvania 0.55</p>