Rankings

QS World University Rankings|Linguistics

Rank	Title	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	Score
1	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	100.0	92.5	47.4	94.0
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	98.4	92.2	44.8	92.4
3	Harvard University	United States	93.1	100.0	73.5	91.8
4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	89.6	59.1	22.0	79.8
5	Stanford University	United States	87.8	53.0	35.6	79.1
6	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	85.9	50.5	27.3	76.5
7	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	82.3	54.1	34.5	74.7
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	78.1	64.5	47.1	73.6
9	McGill University	Canada	67.4	57.0	60.0	65.6
10	Australian National University	Australia	66.5	47.3	70.3	65.0
11=	The University of Melbourne	Australia	69.3	57.1	32.2	64.4
11=	University of Toronto	Canada	67.9	46.6	54.5	64.4
13	The University of Tokyo	Japan	68.2	36.4	17.9	60.0
14	Peking University	China	68.0	45.2	3.2	59.2
15=	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	66.1	44.4	5.0	57.8
15=	University of Chicago	United States	58.7	48.7	59.4	57.8
17	The University of Sydney	Australia	63.7	45.6	20.9	57.6
18	Cornell University	United States	60.6	30.8	59.3	57.5
19	University of Pennsylvania	United States	58.2	56.4	39.5	56.2
20	Yale University	United States	55.9	56.9	48.3	55.2
21	University of Michigan	United States	57.0	41.1	50.2	54.7
22=	Princeton University	United States	51.8	42.7	77.6	53.5
22=	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	62.5	13.8	21.0	53.5
24	University of British Columbia	Canada	56.7	43.4	36.9	53.4
25	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	51.3	52.0	57.2	52.0
26	New York University (NYU)	United States	51.8	49.6	32.7	49.7
27	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	58.6	24.5	1.4	49.5
28	Kyoto University	Japan	53.9	30.4	15.0	47.7
29	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States	51.2	20.4	38.1	46.8
30	Macquarie University	Australia	50.8	16.4	38.5	46.1
31	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	50.7	28.5	22.0	45.6
32	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	41.8	31.3	73.3	43.9
33	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	49.5	21.5	13.3	43.1
34	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	46.6	32.3	24.4	43.0
35	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	44.5	18.6	52.8	42.7
36	University of Texas at Austin	United States	41.6	33.7	57.4	42.4
37	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	45.7	36.2	21.0	42.3
38	University of Helsinki	Finland	46.2	19.6	32.4	42.2
39	Monash University	Australia	45.3	29.2	26.1	41.8
40	University of Vienna	Austria	49.1	9.7	12.3	41.5
41	Leiden University	Netherlands	48.9	8.1	13.2	41.3
42	King’s College London (University of London)	United Kingdom	42.9	29.2	37.5	41.0
43	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	43.0	25.5	38.2	40.8
44	Seoul National University	Korea, South	48.7	14.1	0.8	40.5
45	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	47.9	11.9	8.7	40.4
46	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	46.3	26.8	6.1	40.3
47	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	46.7	20.0	7.1	40.1
48	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	41.4	51.0	17.6	40.0
49	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	46.3	0.0	24.8	39.5
50	University of Barcelona	Spain	40.2	17.0	49.6	38.8
51-100	Aarhus University	Denmark	29.0	24.1	30.4
51-100	Boston University	United States	23.0	28.0	97.9
51-100	Brown University	United States	33.1	23.2	44.5
51-100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	29.3	18.4	18.4
51-100	Columbia University	United States	33.1	56.0	27.9
51-100	Duke University	United States	23.6	42.4	34.3
51-100	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	32.3	0.0	36.0
51-100	Georgetown University	United States	37.6	36.9	41.8
51-100	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	30.3	22.9	35.3
51-100	Johns Hopkins University	United States	34.4	20.6	58.3
51-100	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	38.1	0.0	25.3
51-100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	35.1	18.9	12.4
51-100	Lund University	Sweden	32.5	31.5	25.2
51-100	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	27.3	30.1	37.8
51-100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	44.3	16.4	16.3
51-100	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	37.8	0.0	7.0
51-100	Northwestern University	United States	23.4	34.9	57.0
51-100	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	33.2	4.0	30.2
51-100	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	38.2	15.9	8.1
51-100	Simon Fraser University	Canada	28.3	14.8	40.1
51-100	Stockholm University	Sweden	42.2	9.0	15.8
51-100	Tsinghua University	China	39.0	31.0	0.7
51-100	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	30.8	8.4	9.7
51-100	University of Padua	Italy	21.2	0.0	100.0
51-100	Universität Leipzig	Germany	37.6	0.0	17.5
51-100	Universität des Saarlandes	Germany	31.3	0.0	18.1
51-100	Universität Freiburg	Germany	32.2	0.0	18.6
51-100	Universität Hamburg	Germany	33.9	2.8	8.7
51-100	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	31.4	0.0	55.9
51-100	University of California, Davis	United States	29.5	20.4	38.0
51-100	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	32.3	21.2	41.4
51-100	University of Groningen	Netherlands	38.2	6.1	17.6
51-100	University of Hawaii at Manoa	United States	37.0	0.0	7.6
51-100	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	34.5	31.3	37.9
51-100	The University of New South Wales	Australia	28.2	33.8	14.5
51-100	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	24.5	40.0	29.5
51-100	University of Oslo	Norway	36.8	12.9	11.6
51-100	University of Ottawa	Canada	35.1	0.0	23.7
51-100	The University of Queensland	Australia	35.2	50.0	27.3
51-100	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	28.3	19.6	20.4
51-100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	29.3	56.2	12.8
51-100	University of Washington	United States	39.7	26.1	29.4
51-100	The University of Western Australia	Australia	30.6	29.4	41.3
51-100	University of York	United Kingdom	34.0	25.5	50.3
51-100	University of Zurich	Switzerland	35.2	8.4	13.6
51-100	Utrecht University	Netherlands	41.3	5.0	11.2
51-100	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	39.0	24.5	39.9
51-100	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	33.4	0.0	15.8
51-100	Waseda University	Japan	41.3	30.7	8.1
51-100	York University	Canada	26.6	9.4	77.9
101-150	Bangor University	United Kingdom	23.3	0.0	73.0
101-150	Birkbeck College, University of London	United Kingdom	23.0	0.0	73.2
101-150	Brigham Young University	United States	19.2	0.0	18.3
101-150	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	24.7	22.3	32.9
101-150	City University of New York	United States	19.3	0.0	24.4
101-150	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	21.0	14.0	15.8
101-150	Michigan State University	United States	21.6	18.1	36.2
101-150	Nagoya University	Japan	21.5	18.6	7.8
101-150	National Cheng Kung University	Taiwan	26.2	4.2	16.7
101-150	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan	24.7	4.2	4.6

NRC Ranking 2010

The National Research Council assessed programs according to 21 different criteria. Here are the NRC’s five major ratings summarizing those criteria. For a detailed explanation, see our FAQ.

S-Rank: Programs are ranked highly if they are strong in the criteria that scholars say are most important.
Research: Derived from faculty publications, citation rates, grants, and awards.
Students: Derived from students’ completion rates, financial aid, and other criteria.
Diversity: Reflects gender balance, ethnic diversity, and the proportion of international students.
R-Rank: Programs are ranked highly if they have similar features to programs viewed by faculty as top-notch.

Institution, program	S-Rank High	S-Rank Low	Research High	Research Low	Students High	Students Low	Diversity High	Diversity Low	R-Rank High	R-Rank Low
Boston U. Applied Linguistics	29	48	10	24	50	52	33	46	21	48
Carnegie Mellon U. Modern Languages	9	22	32	45	1	5	1	1	30	51
City U. of New York Graduate Center Linguistics	38	50	21	34	47	50	11	26	22	42
Cornell U. Linguistics	28	41	40	47	11	29	2	14	7	23
Georgetown U. Linguistics	23	32	24	37	26	39	19	34	30	46
Harvard U. Linguistics	4	19	6	27	3	16	24	42	3	24
Indiana U. at Blooming- ton Linguistics	5	13	5	13	18	37	34	43	23	42
Indiana U. at Blooming- ton Second Language Studies	37	51	47	50	36	46	8	24	44	52
Johns Hopkins U. Cognitive Science	1	1	1	1	4	20	43	50	1	19
Massachu- setts Institute of Technology Linguistics	9	21	13	23	2	9	25	37	1	17
Michigan State U. Linguistics	21	30	39	48	4	25	2	10	35	50
New York U. Linguistics	14	25	19	32	29	43	22	34	4	28
North- western U. Linguistics	4	16	6	22	6	23	49	52	17	44
Ohio State U. Main Campus Linguistics	8	22	19	32	9	27	26	37	5	25
Purdue U. Main Campus Linguistics	6	20	9	20	3	17	4	21	33	47
Rice U. Linguistics	38	51	41	49	12	34	19	34	19	39
Rutgers U. at New Brunswick Linguistics	27	41	28	40	17	33	13	31	4	29
San Diego State U. and U. of California at San Diego Language and Communicative Disorders	4	16	3	10	8	27	11	27	6	29
Stanford U. Linguistics	7	21	7	19	9	34	35	45	2	15
State U. of New York at Stony Brook Linguistics	26	41	18	32	22	39	3	14	17	39
U. at Buffalo (SUNY) Linguistics	39	51	26	41	42	48	14	31	19	41
U. of Arizona Linguistics	11	23	12	22	12	27	30	39	13	34
U. of California at Berkeley Linguistics	5	16	10	23	6	25	43	49	2	20
U. of California at Los Angeles Applied Linguistics	2	2	2	3	2	15	13	30	12	50
U. of California at Los Angeles Linguistics	23	32	29	41	9	24	42	49	2	15
U. of California at San Diego Linguistics	24	38	20	39	23	38	47	51	3	20
U. of California at Santa Barbara Linguistics	30	46	26	41	39	45	37	47	21	40
U. of California at Santa Cruz Linguistics	27	43	38	49	2	15	51	52	7	34
U. of Chicago Linguistics	15	27	4	14	45	50	35	44	1	14
U. of Colorado at Boulder Linguistics	13	29	4	19	29	40	34	45	18	43
U. of Connec- ticut Linguistics Ph.D.	36	49	35	46	18	33	6	25	9	31
U. of Delaware Linguistics	8	22	10	24	18	33	3	19	9	37
U. of Florida Linguistics	42	51	47	50	24	42	2	14	41	51
U. of Georgia Linguistics	35	47	41	47	8	25	40	48	47	52
U. of Hawaii- Manoa Linguistics	49	52	50	51	46	51	9	26	16	41
U. of Hawaii- Manoa Second Language Acquisition	45	52	35	46	9	33	8	25	33	50
U. of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Linguistics	9	22	5	14	39	46	5	18	22	43
U. of Iowa Second Language Acquisition	39	52	47	50	3	42	2	15	30	49
U. of Kansas Linguistics	13	29	23	42	15	43	2	13	19	39
U. of Louisiana at Lafayette Applied Language and Speech Sciences	N/R	N/R	N/R	N/R	N/R	N/R	N/R	N/R	N/R	N/R
U. of Maryland at College Park Linguistics	3	6	2	10	2	14	19	33	2	26
U. of Massachu- setts at Amherst Linguistics	3	5	4	12	3	15	8	22	6	27
U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor Linguistics	11	23	14	23	6	26	43	50	11	32
U. of Minnesota- Twin Cities Linguistics	29	42	31	41	32	44	26	37	38	50
U. of New Mexico Main Campus Linguistics	35	49	23	37	49	52	32	43	6	33
U. of Oregon Linguistics	26	42	24	39	22	46	9	25	28	44
U. of Pennsyl- vania Linguistics	6	19	4	12	15	33	32	42	2	18
U. of South Florida Second Language Acquisition/ Instructional Technology	24	40	51	52	1	8	12	28	47	52
U. of Southern California Linguistics	10	23	5	16	26	40	2	9	14	40
U. of Texas at Austin Linguistics	28	44	22	37	47	51	18	33	2	17
U. of Washing- ton Linguistics	28	45	28	40	30	46	40	49	19	46
U. of Wisconsin at Madison Linguistics	27	47	17	33	37	47	15	29	10	45
Yale U. Linguistics	33	49	29	44	28	42	10	27	15	40
National Research Council 2010 The latest NRC Ranking on Linguistic programs is just out today. Instead of having a definite hierarchy, NRC has chosen to give ranks in terms of range. Nonetheless, we can still satisfy our urge to rank stuff using PhDs.org (link: http://graduate-scho…ngs/linguistics) which utilizes the NRC data but customizes the criterions we deem important. By placing importance to only the NRC Quality measure (equal weighting of extremely important to both regression-based and survey based quality score), Research Productivity (all criterions included as extremely important) and Student Outcome (only placement rate and overall support & outcome as extremely important), the list below ranks the top 11 Linguistic Ph.D. program (just because there were 2 equally ranked universities in the 10th position) in the U.S. (with the range in front and the relevant department behind).1-1 John Hopkins University (Cognitive Science) 2-2 University of California-Los Angeles (Applied Linguistics) 3-9 University of Massachusetts Amherst (Linguistics) 3-9 University of Pennsylvania (Linguistics) 3-10 University of California-Berkeley (Linguistics) 3-12 University of Maryland-College Park (Linguistics) 3-13 University of Chicago (Linguistics) 4-14 Stanford University (Linguistics) 5-15 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Linguistics) 5-16 San Diego State University (Language and Communicative Disorder) 5-16 University of California-San Diego (Language and Communicative Disorder) Top 10 Colleges For Linguistics College Crunch 2009 1.  University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, is one of the premier universities in the country, and one of the top research institutes in the world. It’s linguistics program was the first program established in the United States. It was established in 1901. Its original mission was to record the minority languages of the United States, particularly those spoken by Native American groups. The Linguistics Department still remains cutting edge today. It continues the tradition of a strong anthropological focus, integrating in-depth analysis, research and documentation with advanced theoretical work focused on phonetics, phonology and morphology, syntax and semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and the revitalization of language, historical linguistics, typology and cognitive linguistics. Because of its focus on the substance of anthropology and historical linguistics it has established itself as America’s Premier School of Linguistics. 2. Stanford University Stanford University’s Department of Linguistics is one of the top programs in the nation. Stanford offers a diverse range of languages its primary scope of active research is very broad and includes acquisition, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, semantics, sociolinguistics, syntax, typology and variation. Stanford’s Linguistics Department works closely with various other schools within California, and non-profits to continue the tradition of being one of the premier linguistics research institutes in the United States. 3. Cornell University Cornell University’s Linguistic Program remains one of the premier programs in the country. It’s phonetics lab remains the center of its research program that catapults it into the it’s premier status. It offers one of premier Undergrad Linguistics Majors on the East Coast as well. 4.University of California, Los Angeles UCLA’s Linguistics Department is  one of the major world centers for scientific study of language. The experience of the faculty includes the traditional core areas of phonetics, phonology, syntax and semantics, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, language and mathematics. The faculty also include specialists in African and American Indigenous languages. 5. Penn State University Penn State has a great linguistics program. It’s real focus appears to be  on Language Acquisition and Historical Linguistics. It remains one of the most influential research institutions in Applied Linguistics it accepts a small amount of students to its graduate program every year keeping its student to teacher ratio small and the program very elite. 6. University of Chicago The University of Chicago’s Linguistics Department is one of the oldest linguistics department in the United States. One of its outstanding characteristics is its commitment to a wide range of approaches to the study of language. With its never ending commitment to excellence it remains the standard by which many other universities base there linguistics standards and approach on. 7. Amherst University Amherst University’s Linguistics Department has the top ranked PhD program in theoretical linguistics. It remains an elite school focused on theoretical linguistics and continues to gain in popularity and growth because of its specialized focus. 8. Yale University The first doctorate in linguistics was granted by Yale University in 1930 and has taught linguistics at the current departmental structure since 1961. It has one of the first class research departments focused on phonology and semantic relationships, and work hard to maintain one of the best graduate programs focused on linguistics in the country. 9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Linguistics Group has participated in the study of language since the 1950s. Their main goal has been to discover the rules and relationships underlying the structure of languages and what they reveal about the principles to choose the form and language development. It’s standard of education is what makes it one of the leading research institutes and linguistics labs in the Nation. 10. New York University NYU Linguistics Department study structural and social aspects of language, and their interaction. They specialize in phonetics and phonology. They work in close collaboration with the MIT linguistics program too. National Research Council 1995 1 MIT 4.79 2 Stanford 4.59 3 UCLA 4.56 4 Massachusetts 4.44 5 Penn 4.16 6 Chicago 3.97 7 Cal Berkeley 3.97 8 Ohio State 3.80 9 Cornell 3.78 10 Cal Santa Cruz 3.66 11 Texas 3.61 12 Southern Cal 3.58 13 Arizona 3.58 14 Cal San Diego 3.43 15 CUNY 3.41 16 Connecticut 3.36 17 Washington 3.16 18 Illinois 3.10 19 Georgetown 3.00 20 Brown 2.94 21 Harvard 2.92 22 SUNY Buffalo 2.87 23 Pittsburgh 2.83 24 SUNY Stony Brook 2.82 25 Hawaii Manoa 2.79 26 Oregon 2.68 27 Indiana 2.66 28 Delaware 2.60 29 Boston University 2.60 30 Yale 2.57 31 Michigan 2.37 32 Wisconsin 2.20 33 Colorado 2.15 34 South Carolina 1.91 35 Kansas 1.91 36 NYU 1.84 37 Florida 1.78 38 Michigan State 1.76 39 Rice 1.72 40 Texas Arlington 1.26 41 Indiana Univ Pennsylvania 0.55 UK Linguistics league table ranking 2009: 1 Cambridge 2 Oxford 3 Newcastle 4 Queen Mary, London 5 University College London 6 Durham 7 Lancaster 8 Sussex 9 York 10 Edinburgh 11 Essex 12 Leeds 13 Manchester 14 Reading 15 Portsmouth 16 East Anglia 17 Wolverhampton 18 School of Oriental and African Studies 19 Sheffield 20 Westminster 21 Hertfordshire 22 Cardiff 23 York St John 24 King’s College London 25 West of England 26 Bangor 27 Ulster