Bachelor in Linguistics (Bachelor's)

Macalester College is a liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota, focused on ideas, intellectual curiosity, and creating a more just and peaceful world. Its curriculum includes more than 800 courses each year, taught by faculty recognized for scholarship and discoveries. Areas of study range from African Studies, Arabic, and archaeology to data science, neuroscience, political science, environmental studies, and theater. Students can also pursue concentrations, pre-professional programs, and academic support through advising and the DeWitt Wallace Library.

The college places academic work close to professional settings. More than 200 internship sites are within eight miles of campus, while the Twin Cities offer research, civic engagement, volunteerism, activism, and work with government, private, and startup organizations. Eighteen Fortune 500 companies are located in the metropolitan area. Professors can take classes into the cities, and students use internships to connect classroom learning with practical experience.

For international students, Macalester welcomes students from 107 countries and 49 U.S. states, with 88 languages spoken by Mac students. The campus sits a few miles from downtown Saint Paul, the state capitol, and the Mississippi River, with Minneapolis nearby. A free Universal Pass provides bus and light rail access to museums, markets, cultural venues, the airport, and neighborhoods across the Twin Cities. The airport is five miles away.

Students study language, language development, and how languages and language groups relate. They may study psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, semantics, morphology, syntax, and historical linguistics.

Applications include artificial intelligence, lexicography, dialectology, rhetoric, and comparative language study. The field also supports work on language structure, language change, and language use.

For international students, tuition is well above the median for US programmes. The institution admits about 28% of applicants.