BA (Hons) Linguistics

As a trained language specialist with excellent transferable knowledge and skills you will be able to pursue a really wide range of careers. Some may require additional training or skills, but not all do.

Specific examples of careers where a degree in linguistics is relevant include (but are not limited to):

• Speech and language therapy
  
• Teaching in the primary and/or secondary school sectors
• Teaching English as a foreign language in the UK and abroad
• Marketing and advertising
• Media, publishing, and journalism
• Automated speech recognition and analysis
• Artificial intelligence and natural language processing
• Computer-mediated language learning
  
• Working as a language analyst for a governmental organisation
  

This programme also provides an ideal platform for postgraduate study.

Knowledge of linguistics is also valued by employers who recognise that graduates acquire valuable transferable skills such as excellent verbal and written communication, analysis, research and independent thinking.  

These skills are relevant to a wide range of other career paths and open up areas such as management in the commercial and business sector; broadcasting and market research, or into any career where communication skills and advanced awareness of language are valued. As a trained linguist with employer-friendly, transferable skills you will be able to pursue a broad range of careers.

Job titles of some of our recent graduates include:

• Speech therapist
• Lecturer
• Teacher
• Conference, Exhibition and Event co-ordinator
• PR Manager
• NGO Administrator
• European Process Leader
• Proof reader
• Retail/wholesale manager
• Teacher of English to speakers of other languages
  
• Graduate Teaching Assistant

Industry Links

We maintain close links with professional organisations such as the LAGB (Linguistics Association of Great Britain), the LSA (Linguistic Society of America), PLUG (Professional Languages at Universities Group), the Chartered Institute of Linguists, where some of our staff are examiners, and the Institute of Translation and Interpreting.