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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #23 |
Yale University
United States |
78.2 | 76.3 | 87.7 | 83.7 |
| #46 |
University of Washington
United States |
71.3 | 71.5 | 67.0 | 74.0 |
| #16 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
83.7 | 83.2 | 81.4 | 90.3 |
| #28 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
75.5 | 75.0 | 68.2 | 87.1 |
| #20 |
University of Sydney
Australia |
81.0 | 82.7 | 86.9 | 61.6 |
| #32 |
University of Queensland (UQ)
Australia |
74.9 | 73.4 | 98.3 | 63.9 |
| #13 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
85.2 | 86.5 | 78.9 | 81.0 |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
93.3 | 94.1 | 96.0 | 83.9 |
| #22 |
University of Michigan
United States |
78.7 | 77.7 | 81.1 | 84.6 |
| #19 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
81.3 | 80.8 | 91.7 | 74.7 |
| #14 |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
United States |
84.8 | 88.2 | 60.9 | 81.4 |
| #35 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
73.7 | 74.4 | 84.1 | 58.0 |
| #29 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
75.3 | 75.3 | 70.4 | 79.7 |
| #45 |
University of Helsinki
Finland |
71.8 | 72.3 | 62.7 | 76.9 |
| #7 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
87.3 | 88.5 | 83.1 | 81.5 |
| #11 |
University of Chicago
United States |
85.9 | 85.7 | 81.5 | 91.8 |
| #6 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
91.1 | 91.8 | 94.4 | 81.7 |
| #3 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
96.1 | 100.0 | 86.4 | 74.4 |
| #8 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
87.0 | 89.8 | 83.0 | 68.3 |
| #25 | 76.5 | 75.5 | 79.7 | 81.5 | |
| #43 |
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom |
72.6 | 72.1 | 79.5 | 69.8 |
| #38 |
University of Arizona
United States |
73.4 | 74.0 | 58.1 | 84.3 |
| #25 |
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands |
76.5 | 81.0 | 50.7 | 66.5 |
| #17 |
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Canada |
82.2 | 90.9 | 46.4 | 48.5 |
| #46 |
Universität Wien
Austria |
71.3 | 72.8 | 73.5 | 56.7 |