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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #9 |
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia |
86.5 | 83.4 | 100.0 | 97.8 |
| #2 |
Harvard University
United States |
96.5 | 96.4 | 97.0 | 96.5 |
| #12 |
Princeton University
United States |
85.6 | 84.7 | 83.3 | 95.0 |
| #15 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
84.5 | 83.4 | 84.7 | 92.9 |
| #11 |
University of Chicago
United States |
85.9 | 85.7 | 81.5 | 91.8 |
| #16 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
83.7 | 83.2 | 81.4 | 90.3 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
96.7 | 99.3 | 83.2 | 88.9 |
| #27 |
Cornell University
United States |
76.0 | 74.1 | 78.3 | 88.6 |
| #17 |
McGill University
Canada |
82.2 | 81.5 | 82.5 | 87.4 |
| #28 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
75.5 | 75.0 | 68.2 | 87.1 |
| #22 |
University of Michigan
United States |
78.7 | 77.7 | 81.1 | 84.6 |
| #38 |
University of Arizona
United States |
73.4 | 74.0 | 58.1 | 84.3 |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
93.3 | 94.1 | 96.0 | 83.9 |
| #23 |
Yale University
United States |
78.2 | 76.3 | 87.7 | 83.7 |
| #6 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
91.1 | 91.8 | 94.4 | 81.7 |
| #25 | 76.5 | 75.5 | 79.7 | 81.5 | |
| #7 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
87.3 | 88.5 | 83.1 | 81.5 |
| #14 |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
United States |
84.8 | 88.2 | 60.9 | 81.4 |
| #4 |
Stanford University
United States |
93.6 | 95.9 | 87.7 | 81.1 |
| #13 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
85.2 | 86.5 | 78.9 | 81.0 |
| #34 |
King's College London (University of London)
United Kingdom |
73.9 | 73.0 | 74.6 | 80.4 |
| #32 |
Indiana University Bloomington
United States |
74.9 | 76.3 | 58.0 | 80.2 |
| #50 |
Macquarie University
Australia |
70.7 | 69.9 | 68.2 | 79.8 |
| #29 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
75.3 | 75.3 | 70.4 | 79.7 |
| #49 |
Lancaster University
United Kingdom |
71.0 | 71.7 | 57.5 | 78.7 |
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