<p>I love what I've heard about this uni so far! I want to double major in linguistics/ancient studies. The ancient studies at UChicago sounds amazing. What about linguistics? How is UChicago's linguistics department?</p>
<p>Chicago has one of the best Linguistics departments in the country. We're very strong in phonology and syntax. The usual line is that Northwestern is better at semantics and Chicago better at syntax, but we just stole Northwestern's best semanticist. Ha ha!</p>
<p>We also have some very strong computational linguistics, if you're into that. heck, John Goldsmith, Mr. Autosegmental Phonology himself, teaches the undergrad intro to computational linguistics course.</p>
<p>Chicago should be a top choice for anyone considering linguistics.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply!</p>
<p>Well, as far as I know, Chicago HAD one of the best linguistics programs in the world. However, right now, they have one of the many medium level linguistics programs. They lost many of their top-notch people, and in the last 10 years, they have been just a mediocre linguistics dept. However, Chicago has its name value, so you can still consider going there.</p>
<p>Do you just search these forums for threads containing "linguistics" to respond to? This thread is a month old. ;)</p>
<p>lingforum what are some top undergrad linguistics programs and im wondering how do you get this info?</p>
<p>MIT has an amazing linguistics program.</p>
<p>Of all the disciplines, I've found few which value the prestige of prominent faculty more than linguistics. Alan Prince is at Rutgers, but that doesn't mean you'll get a great linguistics education there any more than the fact that Vladimir Drinfeld teaches at Chicago means you'll get a great mathematics education here. Both statements may be true, but the quality of instruction, especially at the undergraduate level, is largely independent of the prestige of the faculty.</p>
<p>The great thing about linguistics at Chicago is that the line between graduate studies and undergraduate studies is blurred. After the intro sequence most classes you take will be cross-listed as graduate classes. My Phonology II class was almost entirely grad students.</p>
<p>MIT and Chicago take different approaches and the emphasis is quite different. One may want to check into these differences before deciding which to pursue, if one has that choice. A friends daughter is earning her Ph.D. in the field at Chicago and raves about the undergrads in the program, but how they all used to moan (in agony) when an undergrad was in the course (she said they were always way too smart).</p>