<p>Does anyone know of any colleges (undergrad) that have a particularly good linguistics program. Also, what kind of job options are there afterwards? If anyone who has majored or knows someone that majored in linguistics and could tell me what they do for a living, that would be really helpful. Thanks!</p>
<p>Linguistics grads have the same options as most social science and particularly humanities grads. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.lsadc.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.lsadc.org/</a></p>
<p>Click on "resources" and "directories" and check to see if each school offers a BA in the subject. Perhaps see where professors who teach linguistics and majored in linguistics went for their undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>As for what you can do with it, if you at all interested in computers there is a need for linguistic/computer science majors to help prefect computerized translators. You could also work with anthropologists and archeologists with languages of ancient cultures. If you want to do research and are interested in science you can work to help understand how humans create and process language. There's also the obvious, taking linguistics with a specific language and becoming a translator.</p>
<p>This might help:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.linguistlist.org%5B/url%5D">www.linguistlist.org</a></p>
<p>Also, it really depends on what you study. Anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, comparative linguistics and so forth.</p>
<p>You'll figure out what takes your fancy as you go along. I happen to be a psycholinguistics geek, and am currently doing intensive study into second and third language acquisition. If I tire of research, I could become a college professor, a psychologist, an industrial consultant, an LD counselor, a lexicographer, a private tutor, a sourceable translator....</p>