Title says it all. Really in love with Brown, really in love with Linguistics. I’ve been told Penn has a better program but I’ve lived down the block from Penn my whole life, and want to live somewhere different. Brown has everything else that I’m looking for, but I wanted a second opinion on the quality of a potential undergrad Linguistics education. Thanks all!
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From what I know through friends, it’s a very well-considered program. One of these friends is now doing a linguistics PhD at a top grad program and made a lot of connections at Brown to get him there.
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Linguistics at Brown is VERY good. It depends a bit on what you’re into. Much more computational linguistics at Penn. Check into each program carefully as they each have different strengths. My son applied last year (also planning on majoring in Linguistics) so we looked into all of this last year. Brown is great! Cornell has an extremely good program too and don’t forget about Georgetown and U Chicago. Not sure what you are looking for in a school, but all these programs are top notch.
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What does Brown focus more on, in terms of linguistics? Are the professors great in their fields and do they bring their work into the classrom?
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What I remember is that the Brown linguistics dept. was very well rounded in terms of the various subfields of linguistics. The department was also interconnected with both the cognitive science department and the psychology department so there was a lot of collaboration and interconnectivity. I don’t know the answer to your question about whether the professors brought their research into the undergraduate curriculum, but you could definitely reach out to the professors there to ask that question. I know my son did contact the various undergraduate departments of linguistics at all the schools he was interested in and he spoke directly to professors either thru email or in person. I do know that he was really impressed with Cornell, Brown and Yale. He did not apply to some of the other schools I mentioned (Georgetown, UChicago) only because those schools did not fit his needs for whatever reasons. But those schools along with Rice University and UMass at Amherst have very strong programs as well.
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