Linguistics

About this course

Linguistics is the systematic scientific study of human language, examining its structure, variation, acquisition, use and change across the full diversity of the world's languages and the communities that speak them. It is a discipline that draws on an unusually wide range of other fields, from philosophy and psychology through to physics, engineering and the social sciences, making it one of the most genuinely interdisciplinary subjects in the university. Linguists ask questions about the sounds, words, sentences and meanings of languages, about how children acquire them, how they vary across speakers and communities, how they change over time and how they can be processed and produced by the brain and by machines. At Cambridge, one of the world's great centres of linguistic scholarship, this three-year, full-time programme takes you through the major branches of the discipline, inclu

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 80% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 25% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 50 / 100Business and Financial Project Management Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 32 / 100Artistic, literary and media occupations · 20% of graduatescards →

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