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<p>bump..........</p>
<p>IU offers 40+ languages.</p>
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<p>schools with more 5 or more linguistics bachelors graduates last year</p>
<p>Brigham Young University 59
The University of Texas at Austin 38
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 38
University of California-San Diego 36
University of California-Berkeley 33
University of Florida 32
Ohio State University-Main Campus 29
University of California-Santa Barbara 29
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 26
Boston University 24
University of California-Santa Cruz 20
University of California-Los Angeles 20
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 19
University of Colorado at Boulder 18
University of California-Davis 18
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 18
University of Iowa 15
University of Chicago 14
Harvard University 14
University of Maryland-College Park 14
Cornell University 14
Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway 12
University of Georgia 11
Yale University 11
Earlham College 10
University of Wisconsin-Madison 10
University of Pennsylvania 10
Dartmouth College 10
SUNY at Binghamton 9
New York University 8
Rice University 8
Georgetown University 7
University of Southern California 7
Duke University 7
Macalester College 6
Swarthmore College 6
Indiana University-Bloomington 6
Northwestern University 6
Stanford University 6
Brown University 6
Reed College 5
University of California-Irvine 5
University of Missouri-Columbia 5</p>
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<p>Linguistics is different from foreign language study. For example, MIT has one of the most famous linguistic departments in the country, but it's not the best place for a French major.</p>
<p>Middlebury and Dartmouth have perhaps the best reputation for foreign language instruction in New England. UChicago has, I believe, an excellent linguistics program.</p>
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<p>schools with large numbers of bachelors graduates in foreign languages or linguistics or language studies last year</p>
<p>Brigham Young University 295
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 292
University of Wisconsin-Madison 288
The University of Texas at Austin 269
University of Colorado at Boulder 228
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 227
Ohio State University-Main Campus 212
University of Georgia 211
University of California-Berkeley 189
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 181
University of California-Los Angeles 172
University of California-Santa Barbara 165
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 164
University of California-Davis 164
University of Florida 160
University of Maryland-College Park 146
Indiana University-Bloomington 143
University of Virginia-Main Campus 126
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 123
Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway 118
Michigan State University 116
Georgetown University 111
University of Pennsylvania 103
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 90
Columbia University in the City of New York 87
New York University 87
University of Southern California 86
University of Iowa 80
University of California-Irvine 79
Harvard University 75
The University of Tennessee 74
University of Chicago 73
Smith College 72
University of California-Santa Cruz 71
Dartmouth College 71
Brown University 71
Clemson University 65
Cornell University 63
Middlebury College 61
University of Missouri-Columbia 59
Miami University-Oxford 59
Boston University 56
University of Notre Dame 55
University of California-San Diego 55
Grinnell College 51
Vanderbilt University 51
Princeton University 51
Northwestern University 51
SUNY at Binghamton 49
Hamilton College 48
Washington University in St Louis 48
College of the Holy Cross 46
University of Rochester 46
University of Connecticut 45
Tufts University 44
Texas A & M University 42
Wellesley College 41
Southern Methodist University 41
Auburn University Main Campus 41
University of Delaware 41
Stanford University 41
Colgate University 40
Davidson College 39
University of Puget Sound 39
Vassar College 38
Wake Forest University 37
Iowa State University 37
College of William and Mary 35
University of California-Riverside 35
Purdue University-Main Campus 34
Tulane University of Louisiana 34
DePauw University 33
Amherst College 33
Rice University 32
Macalester College 32
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 31
Yale University 30
Reed College 30
Dickinson College 29
St. Olaf College 29
Hope College 28
Beloit College 27
Mount Holyoke College 27
University of Richmond 27
Furman University 26
Oberlin College 26
Bates College 26
Saint Louis University-Main Campus 26
Emory University 26
Skidmore College 25
Wheaton College 25
George Washington University 25
Gustavus Adolphus College 24
Bryn Mawr College 24
Trinity College 23
Williams College 22
Swarthmore College 22
Whitman College 21
Carleton College 21
Boston College 21
Rhodes College 20
Earlham College 20
Duke University 20
Colorado College 19
Kenyon College 19
Austin College 19
Bowdoin College 19
Brandeis University 19
Baylor University 19
Lawrence University 19
Barnard College 19
Augustana College 18
Wofford College 18
Drew University 18
Syracuse University 18
Johns Hopkins University 18
Gettysburg College 17
Agnes Scott College 17
Colby College 17
Franklin and Marshall College 17
Willamette University 17
Marquette University 17
Spelman College 16
University of Denver 16
Fordham University 16
Haverford College 16
Pomona College 15</p>
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<p>I don't want to ask anybody to do more work, but it would be interesting to see the original post in terms of percent of linguistics majors. For example I saw the following:</p>
<p>University of Iowa 15
University of Chicago 14
Harvard University 14
University of Maryland-College Park 14
Cornell University 14</p>
<p>Chicago has a considerably smaller undergraduate population than both Harvard and Cornell (Arts and Sciences), and Chicago, Harvard, and Cornell have a smaller undergraduate body than UMD and Iowa.</p>
<p>and again:</p>
<p>University of Chicago 73
Smith College 72</p>
<p>Considering how small Smith is, that's an incredible number.</p>
<p>Percentages may give the OP an idea of how popular the major is at given school and his/her likeliness of bumping into somebody else who is a lingustics/language major.</p>
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<p>school, total bachelors, number bachelors in languages/linguistics, percent languages/linguistics</p>
<p>Grinnell College 404 51 12.62%
Reed College 278 30 10.79%
Smith College 737 72 9.77%
Hamilton College 503 48 9.54%
Beloit College 287 27 9.41%
Middlebury College 666 61 9.16%
Earlham College 223 20 8.97%
Bryn Mawr College 275 24 8.73%
Davidson College 457 39 8.53%
Agnes Scott College 201 17 8.46%
Macalester College 413 32 7.75%
Amherst College 430 33 7.67%
Wellesley College 565 41 7.26%
Dartmouth College 1029 71 6.90%
Wabash College 203 14 6.90%
Bates College 387 26 6.72%
University of Chicago 1094 73 6.67%
College of the Holy Cross 700 46 6.57%
Georgetown University 1705 111 6.51%
Wofford College 279 18 6.45%
University of Puget Sound 608 39 6.41%
Swarthmore College 352 22 6.25%
Vassar College 610 38 6.23%
Rhodes College 323 20 6.19%
Lawrence University 310 19 6.13%
Austin College 316 19 6.01%
Hanover College 185 11 5.95%
Dickinson College 500 29 5.80%
Colgate University 695 40 5.76%
Wells College 89 5 5.62%
Willamette University 304 17 5.59%
DePauw University 609 33 5.42%
Bennington College 113 6 5.31%
Haverford College 303 16 5.28%
Whitman College 403 21 5.21%
Columbia University in the City of New York 1675 87 5.19%
Centre College 270 14 5.19%
Drew University 355 18 5.07%
Knox College 259 13 5.02%
Kenyon College 404 19 4.70%
Mount Holyoke College 586 27 4.61%
Brown University 1549 71 4.58%
Princeton University 1125 51 4.53%
University of Wisconsin-Madison 6383 288 4.51%
Sweet Briar College 133 6 4.51%
Bowdoin College 425 19 4.47%
Carleton College 470 21 4.47%
Randolph-Macon College 274 12 4.38%
Trinity College 531 23 4.33%
Harvard University 1748 75 4.29%
Brigham Young University 6876 295 4.29%
Williams College 517 22 4.26%
Hope College 665 28 4.21%
Wheaton College 602 25 4.15%
Hendrix College 241 10 4.15%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 7038 292 4.15%
St. Olaf College 715 29 4.06%
Skidmore College 619 25 4.04%
University of Rochester 1146 46 4.01%
Pomona College 378 15 3.97%
Rice University 811 32 3.95%
University of Colorado at Boulder 5795 228 3.93%
Franklin and Marshall College 440 17 3.86%
Furman University 675 26 3.85%
Oberlin College 685 26 3.80%
Colorado College 501 19 3.79%
Sewanee: The University of the South 291 11 3.78%
Tulane University of Louisiana 911 34 3.73%
Wake Forest University 1003 37 3.69%
University of Virginia-Main Campus 3422 126 3.68%
Kalamazoo College 272 10 3.68%
Colby College 469 17 3.62%
University of Pennsylvania 2867 103 3.59%
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 6319 227 3.59%
Millsaps College 223 8 3.59%
Scripps College 223 8 3.59%
Augustana College 509 18 3.54%
Gustavus Adolphus College 689 24 3.48%
University of Georgia 6060 211 3.48%
University of Richmond 779 27 3.47%
Spelman College 463 16 3.46%
Principia College 116 4 3.45%
Vanderbilt University 1499 51 3.40%
University of California-Santa Barbara 4854 165 3.40%
Hobart William Smith Colleges 422 14 3.32%
Goucher College 275 9 3.27%
Virginia Military Institute 277 9 3.25%
Barnard College 587 19 3.24%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 5614 181 3.22%
Pitzer College 220 7 3.18%
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 3933 123 3.13%
Tufts University 1423 44 3.09%
The University of Texas at Austin 8942 269 3.01%
Connecticut College 466 14 3.00%
Washington University in St Louis 1648 48 2.91%
St Mary's College of Maryland 416 12 2.88%
The College of Wooster 418 12 2.87%
Gettysburg College 594 17 2.86%
University of California-Berkeley 6686 189 2.83%
University of California-Davis 5901 164 2.78%
Albion College 410 11 2.68%
University of Notre Dame 2072 55 2.65%
Southern Methodist University 1583 41 2.59%
College of Saint Benedict 466 12 2.58%
College of William and Mary 1384 35 2.53%
Ohio State University-Main Campus 8384 212 2.53%
Brandeis University 776 19 2.45%
Northwestern University 2097 51 2.43%
University of California-Los Angeles 7120 172 2.42%
Saint Johns University 380 9 2.37%
Occidental College 467 11 2.36%
Washington and Lee University 427 10 2.34%
Stanford University 1756 41 2.33%
University of Maryland-College Park 6301 146 2.32%
Indiana University-Bloomington 6292 143 2.27%
Yale University 1332 30 2.25%
Ursinus College 359 8 2.23%
Hollins University 181 4 2.21%
Clemson University 2957 65 2.20%
University of California-Santa Cruz 3242 71 2.19%
Illinois Wesleyan University 480 10 2.08%
Denison University 537 11 2.05%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway 5774 118 2.04%
University of Southern California 4269 86 2.01%
Southwestern University 298 6 2.01%
The University of Tennessee 3763 74 1.97%
University of Iowa 4105 80 1.95%
University of Florida 8255 160 1.94%
Muhlenberg College 575 11 1.91%
Wesleyan University 747 14 1.87%
New York University 4648 87 1.87%
SUNY at Binghamton 2677 49 1.83%
Ohio Wesleyan University 386 7 1.81%
Cornell University 3534 63 1.78%
Clark University 508 9 1.77%
Emory University 1496 26 1.74%
Saint Louis University-Main Campus 1504 26 1.73%
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 9649 164 1.70%
Juniata College 304 5 1.64%
Wheaton College 367 6 1.63%
University of Denver 992 16 1.61%
Allegheny College 434 7 1.61%
St Lawrence University 510 8 1.57%
Miami University-Oxford 3815 59 1.55%
Presbyterian College 266 4 1.50%
Michigan State University 7755 116 1.50%
Mills College 203 3 1.48%
University of California-Irvine 5370 79 1.47%
Claremont McKenna College 275 4 1.45%
Case Western Reserve University 773 11 1.42%
Boston University 4088 56 1.37%
Duke University 1469 20 1.36%
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 6732 90 1.34%
Pepperdine University 900 12 1.33%
University of Missouri-Columbia 4461 59 1.32%
Johns Hopkins University 1516 18 1.19%
University of Delaware 3683 41 1.11%
Lafayette College 549 6 1.09%
University of California-Riverside 3230 35 1.08%
George Washington University 2335 25 1.07%
University of Connecticut 4231 45 1.06%
Marquette University 1617 17 1.05%
University of California-San Diego 5235 55 1.05%
Lehigh University 1147 12 1.05%
Auburn University Main Campus 4032 41 1.02%</p>
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<p>Thanks for all the info, collegehelper.</p>
<p>Great info! What is the source of your data?</p>
<p>the source of the data is IPEDS website Peer Analysis System</p>
<p>
This post is the most helpful, methinks. Columbia has great offerings in foreign languages, but its linguistics program is practically nonexistent. Many of the LACs listed don't have linguistics programs at all or have very few language offerings. A LAC that offers French, German, and Spanish can't compete with a university that offers Hittite, Sanskrit, and Old Irish. </p>
<p>KaznackFCRC, your post is like asking which colleges have great history or political science programs; they're rather different. Linguistics is the study of languages, but rarely do you learn more than one or two at the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>I find that linguistics is highly misunderstood by nearly everyone, including very educated people and people who think they may want to major in it. I remember one student at my college (I have a BA in linguistics) trying to get out of taking the intro class because she had "taken EIGHT years of LATIN!" Knowing Latin has nothing to do with linguistics. I am not a polyglot myself, though I've studied other languages, and do pretty well in a couple of them.</p>
<p>My advice for prospective majors is to find an intro linguistics book and look through it. Then you'll have a much better idea of what the field is actually about, and whether it actually interests you or not.</p>
<p>NRC grad ranking:</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>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad ranking:</p>
<p>UCLA
U Chicago
UC Berkeley
U Penn
Cornell
UC San Diego
Yale
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Stanford
MIT
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Indiana U Bloomington
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
NYU
Ohio State
U Rochester
Harvard
U Hawaii Manoa
U Kansas
Rice
U Texas Austin
U Pittsburgh
U Arizona
U Minnesota
UC Irvine
U Florida
U Iowa
U Mass Amherst
UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>There are fewer than 150 universities/colleges (of the ~4,000) that even offer linguistics as a major. Many have it as a minor, but still very few. Unlike majors such as psychology, linguistics varies widely in quality at universities; it can be difficult to get a really strong program, even out of all those that have it.</p>
<p>The best privates: Stanford, MIT, Cornell, UChicago, UPenn.
The best publics: Berkeley, UCSC, UCLA, UCSD, Ohio State, UMass, UIUC, UMich.</p>