- Hey everyone, I'm Sam
Clark with Crimson Education,
and this is the Top 5
Linguistic Schools in the World.
A bit of a disclaimer
before I start this list,
this list is based on
the QS World Rankings,
which are based on such
factors as employer reputation,
academic citations per
faculty member, and more.
So it's by no means the definitive list
of the best linguists
of schools in the world.
However, it's a pretty good ranking.
But just because these are
the top five linguistic
schools in the world
according to QS, that
doesn't necessarily mean
that it's the best
linguistic school for you.
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way, let's get started.
Number five on our list
is Harvard University.
The Department of Linguistics
at Harvard University places
a large emphasis on linguistic theory,
historical linguistics,
and the cognitive aspects
related to language and to
the development of language.
A very exciting development
in the Harvard linguistics department
in just the last couple
of years was the addition
of American Sign Language, or ASL,
as a course of study that you can pursue.
Another exciting development
at Harvard in recent years
was the Mind Brain
Behavior or MBB initiative,
which was founded to support
faculty doing research
in areas relating
neuroscience to linguistics.
Number four on our list is
the University of Edinburgh.
Linguistics students at
the University of Edinburgh
can study purely linguistics,
or they can enter an
interdisciplinary program
with linguistics and cognitive science.
University of Edinburgh
linguistics program
focuses a lot on flexibility,
having students choose core
classes right at the beginning,
but then they can explore quite a bit
in years two and three of the program.
A unique feature of the school
is also that you can
study the Scots language,
and it's one of the best
universities in the world
to study the Scots language.
Third on our list is the
University of Maryland.
The Department of Linguistics
at University of Maryland,
College Park combines a lot
of theoretical research in
phonology, syntax, and semantics,
as well as experimental
research in language acquisition
and other neuroscientific
sort of offshoots
of the study of linguistics.
Another major benefit of
being a linguistic student
of the University of Maryland
is that you have access
to the Bagget Summer Scholarship Program,
which provides a paid opportunity
for linguistic students
to do in-depth research
under the close guidance
of a faculty mentor.
A major benefit of studying
at the University of Maryland
is its proximity to Washington DC,
which is the home to
many research agencies
related to the study of linguistics.
Number two on our list
is University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Linguistics majors at
UMass Amherst can either
just pursue a linguistics
major in and of itself,
or they can combine it with
several other disciplines
for an interdisciplinary major,
which is something they actually encourage
their students to do quite frequently.
UMass Amherst linguistics program
is also home to several labs,
including the Language Acquisition Lab,
the Sentence Processing Lab,
and the Center for the Study
of African American Language.
These are world renowned in
the world of linguistics.
You probably haven't
heard of them until now.
But if you were a linguistics person,
you would know about them.
- [Man] I'm a linguistics person!
- I don't care.
And number one on our list is MIT,
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT's linguistics program
has a very scientific focus,
which might not be a
shock given that it's MIT,
and they're really, really focused
on our genetic predisposition
as human beings
to forming and understanding languages.
So you can be sure
that if you're researching
linguistics at MIT,
you're not only going to be
learning languages yourself,
but you're going to really,
really be understanding
how it is that languages have been formed,
and why we as a human
race created language.
There's a lot of students
who work on computer science
and work on linguistics,
who work on data analytics
and work on linguistics.
So you can be sure that if you're at MIT,
you'll be studying not just linguistics,
but a whole wide swath of
technological applications
of what you're learning in
your linguistics classes.
That was the Top 5 Linguistics
Schools in the World
according to the QS World Rankings.
As I said before, it's
not the definitive list.
There are a lot of other
incredible linguistics schools
all around the world.
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