<p>I know that Cambridge is supposed to have a good program in Linguistics and they are also good with languages. Oxford is supposed to be good too. I also know that Canada's UToronto and McGill have good programs in Linguistics. Anyone know of any other internatonal schools that have good programs in Linguistics and Languages? Particularly Romance Linguistics and as far as particular languages, French & Italian.</p>
<p>Just checkin' all my options here :-)</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm from Europe but i wouldn't know which to recommend...</p>
<p>I have a related question though:</p>
<p>Does anyone know good programmes for historical (socio)linguistics programmes? MA programmes would be good too, since I might get into a PhD programme in Holland. I saw a programme I liked at Harvard an Berkeley, but i don't know whether they'll take me and more importantly whether I'd ever be able to pay for it...</p>
<p>My GPA for my MA here in Holland (English in Leyden) Is currently 3,5-ish, but dutch grades are hardly comparable to USA ones, the grading here is much tougher and A's are rare. I am a top-scorer. Plus, I have good connections with professors here, and an article i wrote as a third year undergraduate almost got published (it would if had time to rewrite it).</p>
<p>Penn is supposed to have a good sociolinguistics program. For linguistics in the USA in general, some good linguistics programs can be found at: Chicago, Cornell, Washington, Oregon, UMass-Amherst, Ohio State, Indiana-Bloomington, IL-UC, NYU, Yale and Northwestern. You may also want to look at MIT, UDel, Boston and UGA. You can chek out those school individually to see what they have to offer. </p>
<p>Here is a site I saw mentioned on the UK Student Room forums:</p>
<p>Scroll down to where it says "linguistics" and clikc on that. That may be helpful to you (and to me).</p>
<p>thanks a bunch, I'll check it out!</p>
<p>ETA: I just had a look, and i think it's some sort of quality table for UK Linguistics programmes right?</p>
<p>I'm from the Netherlands, so i might indeed go to the UK in the end rather than the USA</p>
<p>yeah, that's right. Additionally, you may find these forums helpful if you are thinking about the UK. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/gradunion/forum/%5B/url%5D">http://www.srcf.ucam.org/gradunion/forum/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/%5B/url%5D">http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/</a></p>
<p>In the world:</p>
<p>McGill is the best in acquisition.
MIT is the best in theoretical linguistics.
Upenn is the best in sociolinguistics.
Berkeley is the best in American Indian Languages.</p>
<p>umass and santa cruz may be as good as MIT in theoretical linguistics, or better. if you break it down into syntax, phonology and semantics, MIT is usually regarded as tops in syntax, but perhaps less good than these others in phonology. i would rank umass as best in phonology and semantics, but that's my department, so i'm sure i'm biased.</p>
<p>oh - and UBC could give berkeley a run for its money on indigenous languages.</p>
<p>rhombot, I agree... In another post, I actually said that some academicians rank Umass higher than MIT. In that case, it would be the top. But I still think MIT deserves to be top, and I believe most people who think that way believe that it should be the case because of MIT's long tradition of good linguistics and that Chomsk's association with MIT.</p>
<p>And yea, in phonology, I definitely believe that Umass is a top-notch dept. U got McCarty man...</p>
<p>And yea, I agree with you about UBC. I think that Berkeley should not any more keep the first place there since they lost most of their good faculty. Probably, UBC is better now.</p>
<p>UK: Edinburgh, London, and Lancaster</p>
<p>Canada: McGill</p>
<p>Germany: Max Planck</p>
<p>Netherlands: Leipzig</p>
<p>SOAS in London</p>
<p>McGill in Canada</p>
<p>Amsterdam & Leiden in Netherlands</p>
<p>Also Leipzig, but I dunno where it is.</p>
<p>lol....you know whats funny? i still love the language aspect, but am no longer trying to persue pinguistics per se for gradschool. haha...oh how we change.</p>