Studying linguistics can help prepare you for a career in a variety of different fields, including but not limited to: teaching, publishing, national security, international affairs, policy, forensics, medicine, and technology. A recent study found that the major with the fewest underemployed graduates was “Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics.”
Find out more about how our graduates are using their linguistics degree.
Richmond has once again been named to The Princeton Review’s list of “Best Value Colleges” for 2025. Richmond has been included on this list since 2013.
Four members of the Class of 2025 heading to Syracuse University, Penn, Oxford, and MIT are among the 100-plus recent Richmond alumni on their way to graduate school this fall.
Elizabeth Kissling, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, presented "Teaching grammatical concepts in real life: Fulfilling the promise of concept-based language instruction" at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) annual conference.
Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "tRAG: Term-level Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Zero-shot Retrieval" in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).
Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "Return of EM: Entity-driven Answer Set Expansion for QA Evaluation" in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Department of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
Department of Classical Studies
Department of Math and Computer Science
Mailing Address:
Linguistics Program
Carole Weinstein International Center
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8102
Fax: (804) 287-6446
Program Coordinator: Dr. Thomas Bonfiglio
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Jaime Rung