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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 P.h.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  program is designed to build a multidisciplinary community of Stanford graduate students dedicated to finding creative solutions to the world's greatest challenges. The program awards up to 100 high-achieving students every year with full funding to pursue a graduate education at Stanford, including the Ph.D. degree in Linguistics. 

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.  

Admissions Information

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PhD in Linguistics

Dawei Jin, presenting a conference paper (now an Assistant Professor Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

The mission of the department’s PhD program is to train students to do research in linguistics and produce research that reflects the values and the mission of the department as a whole, to prepare them for academic jobs at teaching universities, liberal arts colleges, or major research universities and for jobs outside of academia. Our goal is to ensure that all of our students have at the end of their study an academic or industry position that requires a PhD in Linguistics. Our doctoral degree track focuses on breadth and empirical/experimental methodologies. Students receive training in traditional disciplines such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, and they may also receive substantial training in other areas, such as language typology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and historical and contact linguistics. All of our students are required to take at least two semesters of Methods classes, which include courses in Field Methods, Quantitative Methods and Statistics, Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics. Our students are also encouraged to explore interdisciplinary research within the UB Center for Cognitive Science , and many of our students receive extensive training in Cognitive Science through collaborations with the Psychology or Computer Science departments. 

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• Academic year stipends of $23,000  for all full-time, funded PhD students on 10-month academic teaching assistant, research assistant or graduate assistant appointments.
• UB’s stipend levels are competitive among public Association of American Universities (AAU) member institutions.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship Program : To be eligible for a Schomburg Fellowship, candidates must contribute to the diversity of the student body, and can demonstrate that they have overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education. Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to receive Schomburg Fellowships.
• Presidential Fellowships :  To be eligible for Presidential Fellowships, candidates must meet the criteria listed on the Presidential Fellowship page. Both domestic and international students are eligible, if they meet these criteria. For any questions regarding funding for academic year 2024–2025, contact the director of graduate studies or department chair.

Application Deadlines

December 15:  All PhD applicants wishing to be considered for financial support

March 1:  All other international PhD applicants

April 1:  All other domestic PhD applicants

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Degree requirements.

For most students with no transfer credits from other institutions, the categories in the table above should account for 48 of the 72 credits required for the Ph.D. The remaining 24 credits can be Independent Study, thesis/dissertation guidance or up to 12 credits from other UB departments. (Students in the Cognitive Science track and those earning a concurrent M.S. in Computational Linguistics may be permitted to take additional courses in other departments in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies.)

*Students should consult the Director of Graduate Studies to determine which Methods courses are more appropriate given their intended specializations.

Areas of Specialization

PhD students are required to take four courses in their main specialty (including relevant core and methods courses), and are expected to choose their two methods courses in accordance with their specialization. Students need not choose their area of specialization early in their graduate career; faculty only expect that students take these four courses by the time they finish their course work (i.e., complete their 72 credit hours).

Students admitted to the PhD track who decide, during the first or second year, that they no longer wish to pursue a PhD, may instead complete the course requirements for the MA specialization and take the MA exam.

Specializations and Applicable Courses

This list of courses is intended only as a guideline, and additional classes may be added to these lists upon approval by the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS). Please also note that some courses are more frequently taught than others. Students should contact the DGS to inquire about future course scheduling. 

*Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics are highly interdisciplinary and may involve substantial work in other departments.

Qualifying Paper

The qualifying paper (QP) is required of students who have been admitted to the Doctoral program in the Department of Linguistics. It must be completed before the student can pass on to Phase 2 of the program (i.e., the phase during which students conduct their PhD thesis research). The QP is intended to give the student experience in carrying out a research project that goes beyond what is normally required of a course paper; however the project certainly can evolve out of a course paper. The paper should have the format of a journal submission, and be between 9,000 and 12,000 words in length.

Early in their second year of graduate study, the student should choose a faculty member who will advise the student while he or she is working on the QP. (The faculty member may be, but does not have to be, the same faculty who will direct the student’s dissertation.) The role of the advisor is to guide the student as he or she is carrying out the research and the writing. The student, together with the advisor, select a second committee member (or “reader”), who will read and comment on the QP.

Once the QP has been approved by the advisor, the Director of Graduate Studies will assign a third committee member (or “reader”), and the other members of the QP committee will then read the QP and provide feedback or simply approve the paper if no additional revisions are necessary. When the committee has approved the QP, the three faculty sign the approval form. Students return the form to the Director of Graduate Study after all three faculty have signed the form, and (s)he will also sign it. Finally, the form is sent to the graduate secretary, so that (s)he can enter the information into our student database and file the form in the student’s file.

Students are required to make an oral presentation of their QP research at the end of their fifth semester (at the latest), and to finish their QP by the end of the sixth semester (at the latest). Upon completion of a student’s QP, the faculty as a whole will either determine whether (s)he should passed onto Phase 2 of the PhD program. In the event a student is not passed onto the P.D phase of the program, (s)he will earn a terminal MA and will leave the program.

Dissertation Proposal

The dissertation proposal is not intended to be a paper in the same sense as the QP. Rather, the dissertation proposal should be viewed as a very long abstract. It should include a statement of the topic (or hypothesis/claim); the context for the research (Why should other linguists be interested in the research? How does it fit into previous research?); the methodology and nature of the data or evidence that the student hopes to collect or find; and, perhaps, a preview of the conclusions the student hopes to present or the contribution the dissertation will make. Generally, the proposal should not be any longer than 20 pages; however the dissertation advisor ultimately determines the form of the proposal.

Dissertation Proposal Defense

The proposal defense is simply a meeting of the committee members and the student to ensure that everyone is clear about the nature of the topic, the scope of the research, and the methodology. Typically, no one “fails” a proposal defense, since the primary goal is to clarify and comment on the research before the research begins. The student should be aware, however, that the proposal defense may result in significant changes in the research plan.

Once the proposal defense has taken place, the committee members sign the form, the form is returned to the Director of Graduate Studies to sign, and finally the form is sent to the Assistant to the Chair.

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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 .

Learn about non academic careers in Linguistics .

See what former Linguistics Majors are doing now!

Click on any person below to find out where each is working.

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.

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

• Linguistics resources for high school teachers
• Proto-linguistics: 6 ways to do linguistics in high school
• Trying to hack the IB diploma into something vaguely linguistic
• How to look for linguistics undergraduate programs  
• 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?  
• PhD/Postdoc tips from Lauren Gawne
• How to become a professor in linguistics
• Lingthusiasm Bonus #15: linguistics grad school advice

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.  

• Lexicographer
• Scholarly communications librarian
• Health writer
• Policy analyst
• Science fiction writer
• Book publicist
• ESL Teacher
• Literary Agent
• Speech Pathologist  ( profile ,  more resources )
• Career Linguist
• Research Assistant  (more  on RAships )
• Data scientist
• 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!)
• Project manager at a language learning tech company  
• Language creator
• Data analyst
• Interpreter
• High school teacher
• Humanitarian aid worker
• Editor & copywriter
• Language revitalization program director
• Copywriter & fiction author
• Tour company director
• Computational linguist
• Speech pathologist
• EFL teacher
• Educational development consultant
• Apprentice mechanic
• Radio digital managing editor
• University course coordinator
• Think tank researcher
• Museum curator
• Communications consultant
• Communications professionals
• Accent coach
• Standards engineer
• Translator and business owner
• Freelance editor and writer
• Agency owner and executive editor
• PR consultant
• Journalist/editor
• School linguist
• Learning scientist
• Communications specialist
• Product manager
• Software engineer
• Marketing content specialist
• Community outreach coordinator

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: 

• Linguistics and careers in Artificial Intelligence
• How a linguist became a zookeeper
• Video from professional paths for linguists workshop
• Linguists who have become webcomic creators
• Linguists in industry panel video
• Computational linguistics ,  machine translation  (more  machine language )
• Linguists in industry panel (primarily tech-focused)
• Working in tech: it’s not just for computational linguists (LSA webinar)
• Letter to a prospective lexicographer
• On naming new products  (more  on naming )
• Forensic linguistics ,  more forensic linguistics , and still more
• Professional conlanger
• NASA, user experience testing, and others
• 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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‘It Feels Like I Am Screaming Into the Void With Each Application’

By Peter Coy

Opinion Writer

When I asked new college graduates last month to tell me about their job searches, I got back a ton of heartache. Unanswered applications. Lowered expectations. For some, a sense that college was a waste of time and money.

John York wrote that he was about to earn a master’s degree in mathematics from New York University. “I have submitted close to 400 applications. I have heard back from less than 40, all rejections,” he wrote. “I essentially cannot get any job, because there are no entry-level positions anywhere at all.” He has a patent, he passed the first-level exam for Chartered Financial Analysts and he’s getting his Series 3 license, another financial credential. Nevertheless, he wrote, “It is just so silent, it feels like I am screaming into the void with each application I am filling out.”

Mauricio Naranjo, who is seeking work as a graphic designer, wrote, “Over the past year, I have submitted more than 400 applications and consistently receive a response that appears to be A.I.-generated, stating that unfortunately, they have moved forward with another candidate who better fits their expectations. This is the exact phrasing every time. Very few respond, as most do not reply at all.”

“Exhausting. Utterly demoralizing,” wrote Beth Donnelly, who is graduating this month with a major in linguistics and minors in German and teaching English as a second language. “I’ve been searching since early August for full-time, part-time or internship positions after I graduate. I’ve started putting my ‘desired salary’ at $35,000 in hope that just one person will think, ‘Oh, I won’t have to pay this person a large wage, so they get a leg up in the hiring process.’”

I got some positive responses, too. Lucinda Warnke, who landed a job in journalism as a general assignment reporter, wrote: “I am optimistic and excited! I feel confident in my career trajectory and my ability to build a stable, satisfying career. The job I got out of school comes with a livable wage and benefits, so I can build savings in the event that I am laid off or have some other financially demanding emergency. I feel like I made a good investment in my education because I went to a school that was affordable and studied subjects that balanced my interests with my professional needs.”

A majority of responses were grim, though. That’s not too surprising, given that half of college graduates are underemployed a year after graduation, meaning that they are working in jobs that don’t require the degrees they earned, as I wrote in my April 29 newsletter.

There’s clearly something wrong when young graduates can’t find jobs at the same time that employers complain of not being able to find qualified workers. As of March, there were still fewer unemployed people than job openings, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In April the unemployment rate remained below average at 3.9 percent.

The responses I got aren’t a representative sample of all college graduates. It’s possible that unhappy people were more likely to write in. (I had to leave out some of the angriest and most dejected people because they didn’t want their names to appear.) Separately, my informal impression is that the people who wrote — happy or sad — were more likely to have attended a highly ranked school and to have graduated without student loans than the general student population.

Many students wrote that the jobs they were seeking or secured didn’t draw on what they learned in the classroom. “I will be using the skills I picked up in my data science minor, but nothing from my major (international relations),” Rain Orsi, a 2024 graduate, wrote. “A lot of the educational stuff could’ve been condensed to a 20-page PDF and I probably would be at the same knowledge level,” another student wrote. Jackeline Arcara wrote that if she had it to do over again, “I wouldn’t go to a four-year, fancy-pants school. I would take classes at a local college part-time and see where that takes me.”

Some students said that classroom learning was only part of what made college worthwhile to them. “College gives you four years to grow up — I have the maturity now to handle a full-time job. Before college, not so much,” wrote Caroline Lidz, who got a job in public relations after graduating in December with a degree in media studies and communications and a minor in art history.

Several said internships matter, a lot. “I wish I interned for a company outside of the school instead of being a research/lab assistant,” wrote Roger Vitek, who is graduating in June with a degree in product design and is still job hunting.

Economists have found that what you study in college is at least as important as where you study. As I wrote in my April 29 piece, there’s relatively strong demand for computer science, engineering, mathematics and math-intensive business fields such as finance and accounting.

But as I found out from the people who wrote in, that’s not always the case. Robert Vermeulen, a computer science major, wrote, “Out of the ~155 applications I haven’t had a reference on, I have gotten zero interviews.” Morgan Steckler wrote that he is looking for a software engineering or I.T. administration role paying at least $70,000 a year, but has had no luck so far. He said he’s thinking of bartending while continuing to send out applications. On the positive side, there are people like Warnke, who got a job as a reporter — not exactly a fast-growing profession.

As I read students’ responses, I had to remind myself that this is actually a relatively good year for finding a job. To a lot of members of the class of ’24, it doesn’t feel that way. Julia Brukx, who is graduating with a degree in history and art history, wrote, “I think I hit a new low just this morning when asked to write a cover letter for a retail position.”

Donnelly, the woman who described her job search as demoralizing, wrote: “I was told that if I was involved, active, kind, ready to learn, driven and intelligent, I would end up with a job out of college. This is evidently not true, and few older people seem to understand this.” She added, “I don’t have a backup plan besides working in the service industry.”

Elsewhere: Caps, Not Bans, for Short-Term Rentals

New York City’s Local Law 18, which was passed with the support of the hotel industry, tightens the rules on renting out rooms for less than 30 days. Supporters say renting rooms to tourists raises rents for New Yorkers. But an article published in Harvard Business Review by three scholars — one of whom used to work for Airbnb — calculates that Airbnb caused only about 1 percent of the aggregate increase in rents over the past decade or so. Hosts, guests and the businesses that serve them benefit. To keep certain neighborhoods from being overwhelmed by tourists, the authors recommend caps on how many nights per year a place may be rented out.

Quote of the Day

“The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightning calculator of pleasures and pains who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness under the impulse of stimuli that shift him about the area, but leave him intact. He has neither antecedent nor consequent.”

— Thorstein Veblen, “Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?” (1898)

Peter Coy is a writer for the Opinion section of The Times, covering economics and business. Email him at [email protected] . @ petercoy