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Earning a Master's in Linguistics can enhance your prospects for admission to prestigious Ph.D. programs like those at UMass, UCLA, Stanford, UT Austin, or UNC School of Medicine's Speech and Hearing Sciences. This advanced degree often leads to better employment opportunities with increased earning potential. Career paths span publishing, translation, tech development, computational linguistics, brand naming, dictionary compilation, data science, and more. The program generally takes two years to finish, requiring 30 graduate-level credits with 3 thesis credits. Candidates must complete either a thesis or a research project supervised by a faculty member.
The minimum requirements are a bachelor's degree (based on a four-year curriculum) completed before graduate study begins or its international equivalent with an accredited institution; an average grade of B (cumulative GPA 3.0) or better.
The required minimum total score on the exams are internet-based TOEFL exam = 90, The IELTS exam = 7.