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Doctoral Program

The Ph.D. program emphasizes rigorous theoretical work that has at its base a firm empirical foundation in language data. 

Students are provided with a broad-based background in linguistics, teaching experience in the classroom and other forums, and opportunities for original and high-quality research.  Our Ph.D. students write dissertations on a wide range of topics spanning and bridging many subareas of the field.  See our Ph.D. Alumni  page for dissertation titles and job placement information.

Overview of the Program

Through the completion of advanced coursework and strong methodological and analytical training, the Ph.D. program prepares students to make original contributions to knowledge in linguistics, to articulate the results of their work, and to demonstrate its significance to linguistics and related fields.  At every stage in the program, students are encouraged to present and publish their research and to develop active professional profiles. 

Students generally complete the program in five years

• Coursework in core areas of linguistics, chosen by each student in consultation with faculty advisors to build the foundation that best suits their interests and goals.
• Fall Quarter: Includes seminar to introduce students to the research of faculty in the department
• Winter Quarter: Includes participation in small research groups or in one-on-one apprenticeships
• Spring Quarter: Includes beginning to work on the first of 2 qualifying research papers

Years 2 and 3

• Balance shifts from coursework to development of research skills
• Students complete two qualifying papers and then selects a principal advisor and committee for their dissertation by the end of year 3.

Years 4 and 5

• Devoted to dissertation and advanced research

Teaching Experience

As they move through the Ph.D. program, students also gain teaching experience by serving as teaching assistants in their second, third, and fourth year of graduate study. They also have access to the many programs provided by Stanford's Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning , including the varied resources of the Teaching Commons .

Offers of admission to the Linguistics Ph.D. program include funding for the full five years of doctoral study, including tuition and stipend, regardless of citizenship. 

We also encourage our applicants to apply for as many external fellowships and scholarships as they are eligible for; a compilation of funding opportunities for Linguistics graduate students can be found on our  Fellowship and Funding Information page .  Applicants should note that the deadlines for these fellowships are typically in the fall of the year prior to admission.

In addition, the  Knight-Hennessy Scholars (KHS) program is designed to build a multidisciplinary community of Stanford graduate students dedicated to finding creative solutions to the world's greatest challenges. Join dozens of  Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences students  who gain valuable leadership skills in a multidisciplinary, multicultural community as  Knight-Hennessy Scholars . KHS admits up to 100 applicants each year from across Stanford’s seven graduate schools, and delivers engaging experiences that prepare them to be visionary, courageous, and collaborative leaders ready to address complex global challenges. As a scholar, you join a distinguished cohort, participate in up to three years of KHS's leadership program, and receive full funding for up to three years of your PhD studies at Stanford. Candidates of any country may apply. KHS applicants must have earned their first undergraduate degree within the last seven years, and must apply to both a Stanford graduate program and to KHS. Stanford PhD students may also apply to KHS during their first year of PhD enrollment. If you aspire to be a leader in your field, we invite you to apply. The KHS application deadline is October 9, 2024. Learn more about  KHS admission .

Additional information is available about the student budget , Stanford graduate fellowships , and other support programs .

Outside the classroom, there are many opportunities, both formal and informal, for the discussion of linguistic issues and ongoing research, including colloquia, workshops, and reading groups.

Partnership Opportunities

Although not part of the formal doctoral program, there are numerous opportunities for research and development work at the Center for the Study of Language and Information and  off-campus at local companies.  

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Full-time FSR doctoral position in the Project "Embodied grammar learning in high-immersive virtual reality"

We are seeking a full-time doctoral student funded by the FSR (Fonds Spécial de Recherche) to contribute to a project aimed at developing an empirically based framework for embodied grammar learning within VR-based environments. This project integ...

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(Fulltime, E 13 TV-L)Reference No: 2024/114. The preferred start date is April 1st, 2025. Conditionally on the submission of an external grant, the position can be extended for an additional year. In principle, the position can be divided into two...

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Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

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Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) has a longstanding tradition in research in the world’s languages and features unique linguistic expertise. At LUCL, we help develop interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic phenomena by facilitating the interaction between data-driven and theory-driven linguistic research. Here you can study linguistic diversity from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives.

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As you can see in this schematic overview , PhD-positions are divided into three different  categories:

An  employed PhD position constitutes a four-year full time (or five year 0,8 fte part-time) research position, with full funding (sufficient for general subsistence). 

Application for an employed position is in response to advertisement by  Leiden university . Vacancies are advertised on the LUCL and Leiden University websites, and other online channels. They become available through external research funding (such as  NWO or the European Union) with the university acting as grant-holding institution and employer. Alternatively, positions will be made available through special projects on institute, faculty or university level. A third option is that you receive funding through the  NWO call ‘PhDs in the Humanities’ .

The research of many of our PhD candidates is self-funded, meaning that they bring their own funding for general subsistence, from sources other than Leiden University. Candidates applying for a contract position are required to pay an annual fee of €2,800. This fee entitles the PhD student to:

• supervision by at least two LUCL members,
• a personal teaching program with courses for didactics, academic writing, etc.
• a personal budget for conference visits and/or field-work (under approval of the institute manager),
• access to all courses within LUCL,
• membership of  LOT  and access to LOT summer and LOT winter school,
• a (shared) workspace, including a computer account and a University Library card, 
• yearly progress interviews
• access to all professional and social meetings of LUCL,
• contribution to the costs for the publication of the dissertation.

Besides this fee, there are several other financial matters that you may wish to consider.

External PhD candidates  are not entitled to any facilities or financial support by LUCL, except for a contribution towards the publication of their dissertation.  Candidates applying for an external position are required to pay an annual fee of €400.

Application and Admission

If you are interested in starting your PhD at LUCL, you must apply via the Graduate School for Humanities , selecting LUCL as the institute of your choice. Please visit this website to find out more about application procedures and requirements. Once the Graduate School has made sure that your application is complete, it will be forwarded to LUCL. A  review committee at LUCL will then decide whether you will be accepted as a PhD candidate.

Please note, if you are applying for a contract or external PhD position , your prospective supervisor(s) should already have declared their availability and support of your work before  you start the formal application procedure.

Linguistics jobs

What kinds of jobs can you get with a linguistics major? What career options are there for linguistics PhDs who don’t want to go into academia? 

The linguistics jobs series interviews people who have a linguistics major, linguistics minor, masters in linguistics, or doctorate in linguistics, about what they’re doing with their careers, advice for current linguistics students looking at the job market, what kinds of work experience they had, and what they wish they’d known about trying to get a job with a linguistics degree. 

General lingcomm skills: how to explain why your linguistics degree is relevant in a job interview or application

• Linguistics + X
• LingComm - a series on communicating linguistics to non-linguists
• Advice for writing pop linguistics articles
• Differences between writing pop linguistics, teaching, and even other pop science
• Livetweets and slides from a talk I gave about getting linguistics out of the ivory tower
• Advice for linguistics profs looking to support your students in getting jobs beyond academia  
• Lingthusiasm Bonus #3: How to sell linguistics skills to employers
• Notes from a LingComm mini-course that I taught at the 2017 Linguistics Summer Institute: LingComm day 1: Goals ,  LingComm day 2: Terminology and the explainer structure ,  LingComm day 3: The Curse of Knowledge and short talks ,  LingComm day 4: Myth debunking and in-person events ,  LingComm day 5 & 6: Events, self-promotion, and charades , and LingComm, day 7 & 8: Pitching and final projects .
• LingComm.org Resources page
• How to write a successful pop linguistics book  (which doubles as a guide to how to break into pop linguistics writing)
• Practical advice if you want to start a podcast  (by superlinguo, which I co-sign as we have a podcast together)

Academic advice

Self-teaching

• How to teach yourself linguistics online for free  

High school

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• Trying to hack the IB diploma into something vaguely linguistic
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• How much jargon do you need to know before starting a linguistics undergrad class? (Spoiler: not much!)  
• 28 tips for doing better in your intro linguistics course
• How to find a topic for your linguistics paper
• So, your linguistics department has a recruitment challenge  (how to increase undergraduate enrollement)
• How to find student-friendly academic linguistics conferences near you
• What is LaTeX and why do linguists love it for typing linguistics symbols?

Grad school

• Should you go to grad school in linguistics? Maybe
• Linguistics grad school advice, part 1: how do you know if you want to get a PhD in linguistics?  
• Linguistics grad school advice, part 2: how do you decide which grad schools to go to or apply to for linguistics?
• Do I need to have a linguistics major/undergrad degree to apply for linguistics grad school?
• Lingthusiasm Bonus #21: What’s it really like at academic linguistics conferences?  
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Weird Internet Careers

A series on making a living making weird stuff on the internet, as of late 2019.

• Part I - What is a Weird Internet Career?
• Part II - How I Built a Weird Internet Career as an Internet Linguist
• Part III - How to start a Weird Internet Career
• Part IV - How to make money doing a Weird Internet Career
• Part V - What can a Weird Internet Career look like?
• Part VI - Is it too late for me to start my Weird Internet Career?
• Part VII - How to level up your Weird Internet Career

Long list of possible linguistics jobs

Both common and unexpected jobs that people have gotten with a linguistics degree - click for interviews! Also check the linguistics jobs tag  for the most recent interviews, since it updates automatically.  

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• Linguistics podcasters - me and Lauren Gawne featured in Babel Magazine’s Meet the Professionals series

These interviews are by  Lauren Gawne at Superlinguo  (see also her master list of linguistics jobs interviews ): 

• Internet linguist  (it’s me!)
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• Product manager
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Looking for a bit of levity in the linguistics job search? Try this satirical linguistics jobs interview about becoming a wug farmer . 

I also post or reblog linguistics jobs related articles and resources when I come across them: 

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• Compilations of resources  (and  another compilation )
• The four data science skills I didn’t learn in linguistics grad school (and how to learn them)
• A video about speech-language pathology as a linguistics career

General careers resources: 

• A twitter thread by Tressie McMillan Cottom on getting entry-level jobs from a social sciences degree (and especially how to do informational interviews)
• From PhD to Life (blog on non-academic careers after a PhD)
• The Professor Is In (blog on academic jobs)  
• Ask A Manager on resumes and cover letters
• Get Bullish (posts on side hustles and starting a business)
• The Open Notebook (for science communication and science journalism)
• Stacking the Bricks (for internet product businesses and selling on value)
• The Bello Collective Podcasting 101 (for podcasts) 
• Advice on writing a book: for early-stage advice (what kind of publisher should I be aiming for? do I need an agent?), I have found  Jane Friedman’s blog helpful; for mid-stage advice (assuming you decided to go with big trade publishers as I did), I’d suggest reading Kate McKean’s Agents and Books newsletter ; and for late-stage advice (when you’ve got a book coming out), I recommend Mary Robinette Kowal’s Debut Author lessons .  

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UIC Global Talent Acquisition Promotion Fair (UK Sessions)

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Careers in Linguistics

What can i do with a degree in linguistics.

The field of linguistics is extremely diverse, intersecting with many areas such as anthropology, computer science, engineering, foreign language study, neurology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and speech & hearing science, among others. As a result, a degree in linguistics can provide the foundation for a wide range of jobs and careers (see below for some examples). Studying linguistics helps you develop many important skills such as analytical and critical thinking, problem solving, argumentation, data collection and analysis, and written and oral expression. As a student of linguistics, you will become familiar with many different languages and cultures and, as a result, also develop cross-cultural skills. Each of these skills are useful in many careers that may not otherwise seem related to linguistics. Below you will find a list of some of the career paths that graduates with a BA in linguistics have followed as well as some references that may prove useful.

Current postings of linguistics jobs are available from the Linguistics Society of America and ZipRecruiter .

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Language teaching

• foreign language teaching
• teaching English as a second language
• teaching English as a foreign language
• teaching English as a first language
• teaching in literacy programs

Information technology

• natural language processing
• speech recognition, speech synthesis
• language data analyst
• editor (for a publishing house, working with government or educational documents)
• lexicographer (e.g. working for Merriam-Webster)
• technical writer

Language Services Industry

• translator/editor
• interpreter (in-person or remote)

Professions

• speech pathologist/therapist
• accent coach
• audiologist
• college/university professor (combining research, teaching and service)

Miscellaneous

• librarian civil service employee
• foreign relief worker
• computer programmer
• writer/editor
• marketing specialist
• missionary, e.g. working for SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics www.sil.org ), Wycliffe Bible Translators

Some resources:

• Jobs for linguists  from ZipRecruiter
• Careers in linguistics from The Linguistics Society of America
• Monster.com : jobs for linguists
• Career Planning from the University of New Hampshire.

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Your linguistics degree sets you up for careers ranging from marketing and publishing to speech and language therapy

Job options

Jobs directly related to your degree include:

• English as a foreign language teacher
• Lexicographer
• Marketing executive
• Public relations officer
• Publishing copy-editor/proofreader
• Secondary school teacher
• Speech and language therapist
• Talent agent
• Teaching assistant

Jobs where your degree would be useful include:

• Academic researcher
• Advertising copywriter
• Civil Service fast streamer
• Digital copywriter
• Editorial assistant
• Information officer
• Magazine journalist
• Public librarian
• Social researcher

Remember that many employers accept applications from graduates with any degree subject, so don't restrict your thinking to the jobs listed here.

Work experience

Look for work experience opportunities with organisations and businesses that you're interested in or that will help you develop the skills relevant to your career interests.

Some universities provide opportunities to take a work placement during your course, either in the UK or abroad, or to learn an additional language.

If you're interested in training to become a speech and language therapist, it's essential that you get some work experience. Try and arrange an observation session at your local speech and language therapy service and get some experience working with children and adults with a learning disability or the elderly and disabled people. You could contact local nursing or residential care homes, schools, nurseries or stroke groups to ask for opportunities.

Experience of working with children in a classroom setting is essential if you want to become a teacher. If you would like to teach English as a foreign language it could be helpful to get work as a language assistant in a summer school or voluntary work abroad.

Examples of other areas of work experience that may be of interest to linguistics students include:

• opportunities provided by BookCareers and The Society of Young Publishers (SYP)
• work on university publications as proofreaders or editors
• work in a bookshop or library.

Search for placements and find out more about work experience and internships .

Typical employers

A degree in linguistics is useful for careers in:

• communications and media
• government administration
• public relations
• publishing.

It's also possible to go into jobs where you can use your knowledge of linguistics directly, such as working for dictionary compilers or as proofreaders and editors.

Other possibilities include training as a speech and language therapist or teacher, or finding work teaching English as a foreign or second language. There are also opportunities in computer programming and information technology, specifically within areas such as voice recognition and language software development.

Typical employers include:

• media organisations
• publishing companies
• marketing, advertising and PR companies
• primary and secondary schools
• language schools both in the UK and abroad
• Civil Service, especially on the Fast Stream
• law and accountancy firms
• IT and telecommunications firms
• the NHS and private hospitals.

Find information on employers in marketing, advertising and PR , media and internet , teacher training and education and other job sectors .

Skills for your CV

Studying linguistics teaches you about the science and function of language and how it evolves. You develop skills in analysing language, looking at syntax and semantics as well as words and sounds. You also study and critique theories and ideas and learn how to present linguistic data in various formats.

You also develop other important skills, including:

• research skills, including knowledge of research methodology and quantitative methods
• a range of analysis and statistical analysis techniques
• the ability to accurately collect, interpret and manage data
• written and verbal communication skills
• critical thinking and problem solving
• the ability to work well in a team and independently
• project management skills
• self-management
• time management and organisation skills.

Further study

You may decide to go on to study at Masters level to specialise in an area of linguistics of particular interest to you, such as:

• applied linguistics
• forensic linguistics
• language sciences

or a related area such as:

• English language
• philosophy of language
• creative writing
• philosophy.

Various postgraduate courses are also available that allow you to enter particular careers such as speech and language therapy or teaching. There are also opportunities to take a qualification in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).

Although it's not essential to do a postgraduate qualification for careers in areas such as marketing, PR, journalism, IT and social research, further vocational study may enhance your chances of employment, particularly when combined with relevant work experience.

For more information on further study and to find a course that interests you, see Masters degrees and search postgraduate courses in linguistics .

What do linguistics graduates do?

Seven of the top ten jobs held by linguistics graduates include sales, marketing and related associate professionals (10%), teaching professionals (8%), teaching and childcare support occupations (7%), artistic, literary and media occupations (4%), HR (4%), business, research and administrative professionals (4%) and media professionals (3%).

Find out what other graduates are doing after finishing their degrees in What do graduates do?

Graduate Outcomes survey data from HESA.

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