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Career Opportunities
Linguistics prepares you for a variety of careers including:
- Work in education
- Speech-language pathology
- Work in industry—training in linguistics equips you to work on speech recognition, artificial intelligence, computer-dedicated language learning, any field that requires data analysis
- Teach English as a second language in the US or abroad
- Work as translator or interpreter
- Work on language documentation or conduct fieldwork
- Work in publishing, as technical writer, editor, or journalist
- Work with dictionaries
- Become a consultant on language in professions such as law or medicine
- Work for the government (Foreign Service, FBI, NSA, CIA, DOD, DOE)
- … studying linguistics will give you skills you will use in your daily life
To learn more about what you can do with a linguistics major, and by extension to have some ideas about what you could do with a linguistics minor, read .