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We present a ranking of the best universities in the world with the study of linguistics - TOP linguistic universities with recognized programs in popular specialties.
The ranking includes higher education institutions that are chosen by students from all over the world to study theoretical and applied linguistics, literature and language theory. Their main advantages: interesting curricula, internships and career prospects. The world's top universities are also highly praised for their research papers and language labs, some offering interdisciplinary programs combining linguistics and computer science.
Students of linguistic faculties participate in scientific research together with teachers, learn several foreign languages at once, which increases competitiveness as a specialist.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Linguistics
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2 | Lancaster University |
| 3 | University of Cambridge |
| 4 | University of Oxford |
| 5 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 6 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 7 | Harvard University |
| 8 | Stanford University |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 10 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 11 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 12 | University of British Columbia |
| 13 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) |
| 14 | UCL |
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 16 | Peking University |
| 17 | The Ohio State University |
| 18 | Seoul National University |
| 19 | University of Birmingham |
| 20 | Georgetown University |
| 21 | University of Toronto |
| 22 | Leiden University |
| 23 | The University of Tokyo |
| 24 | New York University (NYU) |
| 25 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 26 | The University of Melbourne |
| 27 | Australian National University (ANU) |
| 28 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 29 | Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) |
| 30 | University of Chicago |
| 31 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 32 | McGill University |
| 33 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 34 | The University of Manchester |
| 35 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 36 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) |
| 37 | KU Leuven |
| 38 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 39 | The University of Sydney |
| 40 | The University of Arizona |
| 41 | Radboud University |
| 42 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 43 | Michigan State University |
| 44 | University of Amsterdam |
| 45 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 46 | Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin |
| 47 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 48 | University of Helsinki |
| 49 | The University of Auckland |
| 50 | Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona |
