<p>I really want to study Linguistics. Does anyone know which schools have the best undergraduate programs? I have heard great things about the graduate program MIT, but nothing about the undergrad. How is the program at UMass Amerherst?</p>
<p>I don’t know about UMASS, but I know Middlebury has a great program. </p>
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<p>Middlebury has outstanding instruction in a number of modern languages, but does not seem to have much of a Linguistics department. It only offers a minor and there aren’t many linguistics courses in its catalog. A few other LACs (like Swarthmore) do offer Linguistics majors, with introductory courses in the major sub-fields (phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics.) </p>
<p>For richer offerings, look to major research universities. There are strong programs at most of the Ivies, Stanford, NYU, Chicago, Georgetown, and quite a few state flagships (e.g. Berkeley, UCLA, Maryland, Ohio State, and U Mass Amherst).</p>
<p>The graduate schools form the department reputations. Consider schools with well-regarded graduate programs, then from those, choose according to overall undergraduate strengths and personal fit.</p>
<p>look at Penn, home of William Labov.</p>
<p>My D’s firend is in the program at U of Rochester & seems to be impressed with it.</p>
<p>I had a professor of linguistics who did her undergrad at MIT and med school at Harvard, she loved her undergrad at MIT, then again, she took classes from Noam Chomsky.</p>
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And also alma mater ( BA, MA, and Ph.D.) of Noam Chomsky. :)</p>