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QS World University Rankings by Subject: Linguistics
| Rank | Title | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 100.0 | 92.5 | 47.4 | 94.0 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 98.4 | 92.2 | 44.8 | 92.4 |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States | 93.1 | 100.0 | 73.5 | 91.8 |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 89.6 | 59.1 | 22.0 | 79.8 |
| 5 | Stanford University | United States | 87.8 | 53.0 | 35.6 | 79.1 |
| 6 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 85.9 | 50.5 | 27.3 | 76.5 |
| 7 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 82.3 | 54.1 | 34.5 | 74.7 |
| 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 78.1 | 64.5 | 47.1 | 73.6 |
| 9 | McGill University | Canada | 67.4 | 57.0 | 60.0 | 65.6 |
| 10 | Australian National University | Australia | 66.5 | 47.3 | 70.3 | 65.0 |
| 11= | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 69.3 | 57.1 | 32.2 | 64.4 |
| 11= | University of Toronto | Canada | 67.9 | 46.6 | 54.5 | 64.4 |
| 13 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 68.2 | 36.4 | 17.9 | 60.0 |
| 14 | Peking University | China | 68.0 | 45.2 | 3.2 | 59.2 |
| 15= | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 66.1 | 44.4 | 5.0 | 57.8 |
| 15= | University of Chicago | United States | 58.7 | 48.7 | 59.4 | 57.8 |
| 17 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 63.7 | 45.6 | 20.9 | 57.6 |
| 18 | Cornell University | United States | 60.6 | 30.8 | 59.3 | 57.5 |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 58.2 | 56.4 | 39.5 | 56.2 |
| 20 | Yale University | United States | 55.9 | 56.9 | 48.3 | 55.2 |
| 21 | University of Michigan | United States | 57.0 | 41.1 | 50.2 | 54.7 |
| 22= | Princeton University | United States | 51.8 | 42.7 | 77.6 | 53.5 |
| 22= | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 62.5 | 13.8 | 21.0 | 53.5 |
| 24 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 56.7 | 43.4 | 36.9 | 53.4 |
| 25 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 51.3 | 52.0 | 57.2 | 52.0 |
| 26 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 51.8 | 49.6 | 32.7 | 49.7 |
| 27 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 58.6 | 24.5 | 1.4 | 49.5 |
| 28 | Kyoto University | Japan | 53.9 | 30.4 | 15.0 | 47.7 |
| 29 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | United States | 51.2 | 20.4 | 38.1 | 46.8 |
| 30 | Macquarie University | Australia | 50.8 | 16.4 | 38.5 | 46.1 |
| 31 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 50.7 | 28.5 | 22.0 | 45.6 |
| 32 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 41.8 | 31.3 | 73.3 | 43.9 |
| 33 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 49.5 | 21.5 | 13.3 | 43.1 |
| 34 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 46.6 | 32.3 | 24.4 | 43.0 |
| 35 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 44.5 | 18.6 | 52.8 | 42.7 |
| 36 | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 41.6 | 33.7 | 57.4 | 42.4 |
| 37 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 45.7 | 36.2 | 21.0 | 42.3 |
| 38 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 46.2 | 19.6 | 32.4 | 42.2 |
| 39 | Monash University | Australia | 45.3 | 29.2 | 26.1 | 41.8 |
| 40 | University of Vienna | Austria | 49.1 | 9.7 | 12.3 | 41.5 |
| 41 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 48.9 | 8.1 | 13.2 | 41.3 |
| 42 | Kings College London (University of London) | United Kingdom | 42.9 | 29.2 | 37.5 | 41.0 |
| 43 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom | 43.0 | 25.5 | 38.2 | 40.8 |
| 44 | Seoul National University | Korea, South | 48.7 | 14.1 | 0.8 | 40.5 |
| 45 | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany | 47.9 | 11.9 | 8.7 | 40.4 |
| 46 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 46.3 | 26.8 | 6.1 | 40.3 |
| 47 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 46.7 | 20.0 | 7.1 | 40.1 |
| 48 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 41.4 | 51.0 | 17.6 | 40.0 |
| 49 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 46.3 | 0.0 | 24.8 | 39.5 |
| 50 | Universitat de Barcelona (UB) | Spain | 40.2 | 17.0 | 49.6 | 38.8 |
| 51-100 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 29.0 | 24.1 | 30.4 | |
| 51-100 | Boston University | United States | 23.0 | 28.0 | 97.9 | |
| 51-100 | Brown University | United States | 33.1 | 23.2 | 44.5 | |
| 51-100 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 29.3 | 18.4 | 18.4 | |
| 51-100 | Columbia University | United States | 33.1 | 56.0 | 27.9 | |
| 51-100 | Duke University | United States | 23.6 | 42.4 | 34.3 | |
| 51-100 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | Germany | 32.3 | 0.0 | 36.0 | |
| 51-100 | Georgetown University | United States | 37.6 | 36.9 | 41.8 | |
| 51-100 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 30.3 | 22.9 | 35.3 | |
| 51-100 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 34.4 | 20.6 | 58.3 | |
| 51-100 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | 38.1 | 0.0 | 25.3 | |
| 51-100 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany | 35.1 | 18.9 | 12.4 | |
| 51-100 | Lund University | Sweden | 32.5 | 31.5 | 25.2 | |
| 51-100 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 27.3 | 30.1 | 37.8 | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 44.3 | 16.4 | 16.3 | |
| 51-100 | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan | 37.8 | 0.0 | 7.0 | |
| 51-100 | Northwestern University | United States | 23.4 | 34.9 | 57.0 | |
| 51-100 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands | 33.2 | 4.0 | 30.2 | |
| 51-100 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Germany | 38.2 | 15.9 | 8.1 | |
| 51-100 | Simon Fraser University | Canada | 28.3 | 14.8 | 40.1 | |
| 51-100 | Stockholm University | Sweden | 42.2 | 9.0 | 15.8 | |
| 51-100 | Tsinghua University | China | 39.0 | 31.0 | 0.7 | |
| 51-100 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain | 30.8 | 8.4 | 9.7 | |
| 51-100 | Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) | Italy | 21.2 | 0.0 | 100.0 | |
| 51-100 | Universität Leipzig | Germany | 37.6 | 0.0 | 17.5 | |
| 51-100 | Universität des Saarlandes | Germany | 31.3 | 0.0 | 18.1 | |
| 51-100 | Universität Freiburg | Germany | 32.2 | 0.0 | 18.6 | |
| 51-100 | Universität Hamburg | Germany | 33.9 | 2.8 | 8.7 | |
| 51-100 | Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) | Belgium | 31.4 | 0.0 | 55.9 | |
| 51-100 | University of California, Davis | United States | 29.5 | 20.4 | 38.0 | |
| 51-100 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States | 32.3 | 21.2 | 41.4 | |
| 51-100 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 38.2 | 6.1 | 17.6 | |
| 51-100 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | United States | 37.0 | 0.0 | 7.6 | |
| 51-100 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 34.5 | 31.3 | 37.9 | |
| 51-100 | The University of New South Wales | Australia | 28.2 | 33.8 | 14.5 | |
| 51-100 | The University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 24.5 | 40.0 | 29.5 | |
| 51-100 | University of Oslo | Norway | 36.8 | 12.9 | 11.6 | |
| 51-100 | University of Ottawa | Canada | 35.1 | 0.0 | 23.7 | |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 35.2 | 50.0 | 27.3 | |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 28.3 | 19.6 | 20.4 | |
| 51-100 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 29.3 | 56.2 | 12.8 | |
| 51-100 | University of Washington | United States | 39.7 | 26.1 | 29.4 | |
| 51-100 | The University of Western Australia | Australia | 30.6 | 29.4 | 41.3 | |
| 51-100 | University of York | United Kingdom | 34.0 | 25.5 | 50.3 | |
| 51-100 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 35.2 | 8.4 | 13.6 | |
| 51-100 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 41.3 | 5.0 | 11.2 | |
| 51-100 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand | 39.0 | 24.5 | 39.9 | |
| 51-100 | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands | 33.4 | 0.0 | 15.8 | |
| 51-100 | Waseda University | Japan | 41.3 | 30.7 | 8.1 | |
| 51-100 | York University | Canada | 26.6 | 9.4 | 77.9 | |
| 101-150 | Bangor University | United Kingdom | 23.3 | 0.0 | 73.0 | |
| 101-150 | Birkbeck College, University of London | United Kingdom | 23.0 | 0.0 | 73.2 | |
| 101-150 | Brigham Young University | United States | 19.2 | 0.0 | 18.3 | |
| 101-150 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 24.7 | 22.3 | 32.9 | |
| 101-150 | City University of New York | United States | 19.3 | 0.0 | 24.4 | |
| 101-150 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 21.0 | 14.0 | 15.8 | |
| 101-150 | Michigan State University | United States | 21.6 | 18.1 | 36.2 | |
| 101-150 | Nagoya University | Japan | 21.5 | 18.6 | 7.8 | |
| 101-150 | National Cheng Kung University | Taiwan | 26.2 | 4.2 | 16.7 | |
| 101-150 | National Taiwan Normal University | Taiwan | 24.7 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2011/12
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In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® - Linguistics 2011, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in this discipline, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published
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