Overview

Students gain analytical skills through qualitative, quantitative, and computational methods, with emphasis on functionalist theories, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and experimental approaches. The curriculum is strongly research-orientated, allowing students to design empirical studies, participate in ongoing research, and work on applied projects. Students explore topics ranging from language description and variation to computational modelling and language technology. Linguists contribute to the development of language technologies such as speech recognition, machine translation, and automatic text parsing.

The Linguistics at Aarhus University includes opportunities for internships and practical collaborations, preparing students for research or applied linguistic work. Learning takes place in a tight-knit academic community, supported by a vibrant student culture. Courses reflect the department's international research strengths, and students are encouraged to align projects with personal academic and career goals.

Career

Graduates can become specialists in various fields in Linguistics. Depending on your specialization and personal preferences you make take on many different types of roles, including language analyst, data analyst, consultant, editor, developer, researcher, teacher, or advisor in linguistic, educational, or digital sectors.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure:

The MA program builds toward a thesis project on a subject of the student’s own choosing.
The courses in the program prepare students to design experiments and do statistical analyses of the results, investigate the relationship between structure and meaning in language, explore the relationship between linguistic structure and the contextual constraints of usage, understand the diversity of means by which the world’s languages solve similar communicative problems, and use computational methods to investigate linguistic phenomena.
Students on the MA programme are involved in two research projects on exciting new topics and have the opportunity to explore the application of linguistics in the workplace through an internship.
All students are assigned a staff member as a mentor for the duration of their studies.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-01 00:00:00 , EEA/EU
- Apply before 2027-01-15 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

120 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Aarhus, Denmark

Disciplines

Linguistics

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

The Master’s programme in Linguistics is open to candidates with a Bachelor’s degree or a supplementary subject in Linguistics (i.e. minimum 45 ECTS studies in linguistics. For this reason), foreign students must be able to provide full documentary evidence that they have completed a relevant and recognised university degree equivalent to a Danish BA degree in level and contents.
Other qualifications can provide admission to the Master’s degree programme, provided the university assesses that their level, extent and content correspond to the degrees mentioned above.

The corresponding Bachelor’s degree should as a minimum include:

30 ECTS in linguistics
30 ECTS in one or more of the following: linguistics, a language, anthropology, psychology, sociology, literature

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Applies to you

Non-residents

13000 EUR / year

≈ 13000 EUR / year
EU/EEA Applies to you

Applies to you

EU/EEA Nationals

Free

Living costs

Aarhus

Denmark

6639 - 10051 DKK / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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