Students can double major in linguistics and liberal studies, or minor in linguistics with a liberal studies major to lead to a Multiple Subject Credential for K-6 instruction. Students who pursue a major in linguistics by itself may enter the Multiple Subject Credential Program with satisfactory completion of the MSAT Exam. Many linguistics students find jobs teaching English overseas upon completion of the B.A. or M.A. Students with a B.A. or M.A. in Linguistics can go on for further education in a wide variety of fields. With additional work in computer science, the linguistics student can find employment in software development working with computer language or making the interface smoother between human and computer. After further training, some linguistics students work for the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Peace Corps, the United States Information Agency, the military, or the State Department monitoring foreign news or doing cryptography, language instruction, or translation.
Many corporations recruit linguistics majors into management, development, and marketing positions.
Enterprising linguistics students have developed service-related businesses in consulting, interpretation, translation, or communication. After the Master of Arts in Linguistics, many of our students are accepted into Ph.D. programs in the best research universities in the U.S. in applied or theoretical linguistics, ESL, education, anthropology, psychology, or other majors.