Graduate Schools in Linguistics

Directories and Rankings of Graduate Programs in Linguistics

Linguistic Society of America Directory of Graduate Programs. Click Resources > Directories > Programs/Departments. Somewhat dated but gives the number of degrees awarded. This content is now restricted to LSA members. Ask a faculy member for help and for a list of number of doctorate recipients in linguistics for the years 1958 to 2002.

American Association for Applied Linguistics Directory of Graduate Programs in or related to Applied Linguistics.

Regional and alphabetical lists of graduate programs in linguistics from gradschools.com.

List of foreign and American graduate linguistics programs, each organized alphabetically from the University of Rochester.

The searchable 2000 National Doctoral Program Survey of 19 linguistics programs with customizable rankings by various attributes such as mentoring, teaching preparation, and controlling time to degree.

A detailed and customizable way to rank graduate programs from phds.org. Includes a larger sample (41 schools) than the National Doctoral Program survey, but data are from 1994.

One way to judge a program is by the productivity of its faculty. The private company Academic Analytics has measured and weighted the books published, journal publications, citations of journal articles, federal-grant dollars awarded, and honors and awards of faculty in a variety of discplines. To see some results from the top ten, visit the Chronicle of Higher Education. Be sure to click "Next Page" to see the full data.

Search the Linguist List for thousands of specific names of scholars, or by institutions, subfields of linguistics, specific languages and/or language families.

Directory of Graduate Programs in Speech-Language pathology and Audiology

Directory of Graduate Programs from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

Brief ranking of top five programs as judged by 2004 U.S. News and World Report, with link to for-fee fuller rankings.

Advice on Applying to Graduate Schools

An invaluable excerpt from the Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career on entering graduate school.

General advice from the Modern Language Association for graduate students: from application to career.

A set of questions and answers for graduate school in linguistics prepared by Albert Bickford and Stephen Marlett. It is especially for members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), but has much good general advice.