<p>Does anybody know if grad students at UT can double major? It doesn't say anything on the website except specifies certain dual degree programs.</p>
<p>I would like to major in French Linguistics and Russian, E. European, and Eurasian Studies (which are both in the same college).</p>
<p>No, there is no such thing as a “double major” in grad school. Your “major” is something that your academic department works on with you. You can do more than one master’s degree, and you can take classes toward more than one master’s at once, but each degree is earned as a degree through the academic department you are in as separate, individual degree. Look at the requirements for completing a master’s degree or a Ph.D. in some academic area.</p>
<p>You would have to be quite mad to try to take two masters at once.</p>
<p>You could get one at first and then go for a second.</p>
<p>But as a general rule university professors tend to have advanced degrees in only a single subject. They may have extensive knowledge on other subjects, including seminars, undergrad majors, and postgrad classes, but they will typically have an MA and PhD in a single subject. They rarely have a MA in a second and almost never have a second PhD.</p>
<p>Some masters programs may combine your interests, though, and some may be more broad than what you are looking for. For example, instead of French Linguistics (which I believe would actually require you to select either a Linguistics MA with French concentration or a linguistic track of a French MA) and Russian Studies, you could take Linguistics and take coursework in French and Russian.</p>