[youjeen]

Just wondering if any one out there are planning to major/ majoring in Linguistics..
I am planning to major Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz...so would like some advices and opinions from you guys ^.^

What field of linguistics are you in? What specifically do you like/dislike about it ? What are the schools that are specifically good or focused in certain field of Linguistics?

Is linguistics generally good for people who just like learning languages but don't have a solid background or interest as to how language is formed?

What are the potential jobs for a linguist? translator, interpreter, ambassador?, foreign service officer....professor?


NRC ranking (old but relevant):

1 MIT 4.79
2 Stanford 4.59
3 UCLA 4.56
4 Massachusetts 4.44
5 Penn 4.16
6 Chicago 3.97
7 Cal Berkeley 3.97
8 Ohio State 3.80
9 Cornell 3.78
10 Cal Santa Cruz 3.66
11 Texas 3.61
12 Southern Cal 3.58
13 Arizona 3.58
14 Cal San Diego 3.43
15 CUNY 3.41
16 Connecticut 3.36
17 Washington 3.16
18 Illinois 3.10
19 Georgetown 3.00
20 Brown 2.94
21 Harvard 2.92

And the Gourman undergrad ranking:

UCLA
U Chicago
UC Berkeley
U Penn
Cornell
UC San Diego
Yale
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Stanford
MIT
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Indiana U Bloomington
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
NYU
Ohio State
U Rochester
Harvard