New York University's Department of Linguistics offers seven linguistics major options for undergraduates: language and mind; linguistics; French, German, Italian or Spanish and linguistics; and linguistics and anthropology. Bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees require completion of 128 credits. The school's doctoral program includes coursework in phonetics and phonology, syntax and semantics, morphology, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, historical linguistics and computational linguistics. Graduate students must complete two qualifying papers, a dissertation and a foreign-language requirement. The program accepts seven of 100 applicants each year.
The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Linguistics offers a Ph.D. program, a master's degree and bachelor of arts degree. Undergraduate coursework includes morphological theory, introduction to African American and Latino English, pidgins and creoles, and logical analysis of language. The graduate school accepts six students each year. Areas of focus include computational linguistics, discourse, historical linguistics, phonetics, psycholinguistics, semantics, sociolinguistics, and syntax and phonology.
Georgetown University's Department of Linguistics offers a bachelor's and doctoral degree and several master's degree options. The department's foci lie in four areas: applied linguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics and theoretical linguistics. Students can attend the annual Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. This forum for linguistic discourse draws participants from around the world. To gain practical experience, students can practice or observe in the school's linguistics lab, multimodal discourse lab, data acquisition lab or observation classroom.
Established in 1901, the University of California Berkeley's Linguistics Department is the oldest in the U.S. The department's focus lies in areas such as typology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and language revitalization, cognitive linguistics and syntax and semantics. Student resources include the Cross-Linguistics Tonal Database, or XTone, a digital library of tonal data from languages around the world. The department offers undergraduate degrees and a combined master's/doctorate degree. The graduate program accepts from 10 to 15 percent of applicants each year, with preference given to students who wish to pursue the Ph.D.
Western Washington University's linguistics program offers a bachelor of arts degree. Required coursework includes one year of foreign language study and classes in phonology, syntax, semantics and sociolinguistics. Students can also choose a special concentration in areas such as anthropology, psychology, bilingual education or computer sciences. The school offers an annual linguistics colloquia, which allows program graduates to present their research.