Career Paths
What to do with a major in Linguistics?
Linguistics majors pursue careers in many different fields such as:
- Acting and Acting Training
- Advertising
- Communication Consulting
- Computer Industry
- Editorial Work
- Educational Testing
- Foreign Service
- Foreign Language Teaching
- Government
- Journalism
- Language Documentation
- Legal Practice
- Lexicography
- Marketing
- Medicine
- Teaching English as a Second Language
- Technical Writing
- Translation and Interpreting
Some students use the BA in Linguistics to prepare for professional schools, or clinical programs in:
- Business
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Law
- Library/Information Science
- Medicine
- Speech Pathology
Other students continue their study of Linguistics in MA and Ph.D. programs, either in Linguistics or related fields like:
- Anthropology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bilingual Education
- Cognitive Science
- Computer Science
- Music
- Philosophy
- Psychology