Help! In the queue at a Uni fair - which are the best universities for linguistics?

[LadyPeterWimsey]

Most of what we can find online lumps linguistics into modern languages but DC is adamant they want to do the former only.

Anyone know where I can find this information?

Check if the UWE are still running their English language and linguistics degree. There are a lot more places with linguistics and a MFL.

Dd is applying for same - York, Lancaster, UCL, Warwick, Edinburgh, Leeds, possibly Essex, Southampton and Birmingham with English language, Manchester, Reading...

UCL?

I have a friend who recently studied it at Sheffield

Edinburgh had a great reputation for linguistics when I studied there - that was 20 years ago but I'd assume it's still worth a look.

QMUL (disclaimer- I work here).

This probably is not somewhere you'd consider but I'm going to mention it anyway. You can study linguistics on its own at Ulster University.

I did cracking Linguistics modules at Leeds.

From memory there was Eng Lang with Linguistics or a Linguistics and Phonetics course. Then a Linguistics MA.

Oxford brookes
Lancaster
Reading

Dd looked at these universities for their English language/linguistics courses.

Friend of my dd did an MFL plus linguistics at Lancaster, and has stayed there to do a linguistics masters.

I did linguistics at Durham until they stupidly shut the department. Think they moved everyone over to Newcastle, so have a look there

mamansnet aha! That explains the no linguistics at Durham. DC quite taken with Newcastle on paper.

Blacklamb don't want to out you but do you know the department well? They are not really thinking of London but might be persuaded for a really excellent course that's not just a very few people in each year

Thanks to everyone - will start looking at websites in earnest. Any opinions on particular departments very welcome.

Yes I work in the department (Although not in an academic role and am not a linguist myself - hope I haven't outed myself here!). You can study linguistics on its own (single honours) or joint honours with a variety of other subjects (english language, English literature, French, German, Hispanic studies or comparative literature). The department is very well renown for it's research and it has some of the country's leading linguistics academics - for example prof David adger wrote the textbook that is used for the first year foundation module - not just at qmul, at other universities too - and he does actually teach undergraduates.

I don't have the exact student numbers off the top of my head but the programme recruits pretty well (certainly not a few students in each year) and there is a thriving students linguistics society.

Bangor? David Crystal is there.

Blacklamb thank you - useful knowledge.

Marine04 that's one that hasn't come up before

Birmingham is world-leading in corpus linguistics, and people who got PhDs from Brum now run Linguistics at Lancaster.

BOth are excellent (crossthreading to the Birmingham/Lancaster thread in this forum).