Colleges without Core Curriculum? Also, Linguistics major looking to transfer

<p>The top 10 (graduate) linguistics program according to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index are (program name in parenthesis):</p>

<p>Stanford U. (Linguistics)
U. Arizona (Linguistics)
UNC - Chapel Hill (Linguistics)
U. Chicago (Linguistics)
Ohio State U. (Linguistics)
U. Pennsylvania (Linguistics)
Georgetown U. (Linguistics)
Penn State U. (Applied Linguistics)
U. Maryland - College Park (Linguistics)
Yale U. (Linguistics)</p>

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<p>Cognitive science and linguistics are actually two different subjects, although overlapping. In any case, the top (graduate) cognitive science programs according to the FSP index are:</p>

<p>Cognitive Science</p>

<p>MIT (Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
Carnegie Mellon U. (Neural Basis of Cognition)
Washington U. St Louis (Cognitive Science)
Johns Hopkins U. (Cognitive Science)
Brown U. (Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences)
U. Rochester (Brain & Cognitive Sciences)
Indiana U. - Bloomington (Cognitive Psychology)
Dartmouth Coll. (Cognitive Neuroscience)
UC - San Diego (Cognitive Science)
U. Pittsburgh (Intelligent Systems Studies)</p>