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Linguistics

Career Opportunities

Linguistics prepares you for a variety of careers including:

  • Work in education
  • Speech-language pathology
  • Work in industry—training in linguistics equips you to work on speech recognition, artificial intelligence, computer-dedicated language learning, any field that requires data analysis
  • Teach English as a second language in the US or abroad
  • Work as translator or interpreter
  • Work on language documentation or conduct fieldwork
  • Work in publishing, as technical writer, editor, or journalist
  • Work with dictionaries
  • Become a consultant on language in professions such as law or medicine
  • Work for the government (Foreign Service, FBI, NSA, CIA, DOD, DOE)
  • … studying linguistics will give you skills you will use in your daily life

To learn more about what you can do with a linguistics major, and by extension to have some ideas about what you could do with a linguistics minor, read this article by the Linguistics Society of America.

Check out these slides on Careers for Linguistics majors!

Discover career resources for linguists at the Linguistics Society of America's Career Resource Hub. 

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