World's Best Universities
Linguistics
Linguistics students learn about the structure of languages, as well as how and why various languages differ from each other. Graduates can pursue careers in interpretation, translation, education, and many more fields. These are the world's top universities for linguistics. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #49 |
Lancaster University
United Kingdom |
71.0 | 71.7 | 57.5 | 78.7 |
| #29 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
75.3 | 75.3 | 70.4 | 79.7 |
| #50 |
Macquarie University
Australia |
70.7 | 69.9 | 68.2 | 79.8 |
| #32 |
Indiana University Bloomington
United States |
74.9 | 76.3 | 58.0 | 80.2 |
| #34 |
King's College London (University of London)
United Kingdom |
73.9 | 73.0 | 74.6 | 80.4 |
| #13 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
85.2 | 86.5 | 78.9 | 81.0 |
| #4 |
Stanford University
United States |
93.6 | 95.9 | 87.7 | 81.1 |
| #14 |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
United States |
84.8 | 88.2 | 60.9 | 81.4 |
| #25 | 76.5 | 75.5 | 79.7 | 81.5 | |
| #7 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
87.3 | 88.5 | 83.1 | 81.5 |
| #6 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
91.1 | 91.8 | 94.4 | 81.7 |
| #23 |
Yale University
United States |
78.2 | 76.3 | 87.7 | 83.7 |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
93.3 | 94.1 | 96.0 | 83.9 |
| #38 |
University of Arizona
United States |
73.4 | 74.0 | 58.1 | 84.3 |
| #22 |
University of Michigan
United States |
78.7 | 77.7 | 81.1 | 84.6 |
| #28 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
75.5 | 75.0 | 68.2 | 87.1 |
| #17 |
McGill University
Canada |
82.2 | 81.5 | 82.5 | 87.4 |
| #27 |
Cornell University
United States |
76.0 | 74.1 | 78.3 | 88.6 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
96.7 | 99.3 | 83.2 | 88.9 |
| #16 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
83.7 | 83.2 | 81.4 | 90.3 |
| #11 |
University of Chicago
United States |
85.9 | 85.7 | 81.5 | 91.8 |
| #15 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
84.5 | 83.4 | 84.7 | 92.9 |
| #12 |
Princeton University
United States |
85.6 | 84.7 | 83.3 | 95.0 |
| #2 |
Harvard University
United States |
96.5 | 96.4 | 97.0 | 96.5 |
| #9 |
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia |
86.5 | 83.4 | 100.0 | 97.8 |
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