About Linguistics BA(hons) in University of Huddersfield

• State-of-the-art facilities including a forensic linguistics lab, a research and resource centre and conference labs.
• Opportunity to take a five-week placement as part of the ‘Language in the Workplace’ module – a chance to see how the language skills you’ve learnt on the course can be applied to communication in a working environment.
• Get involved in the writing, editing and production of the popular department linguistics magazine, Babel.
• 95% of graduates from this subject are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 17/18, UK domiciled graduates).
• Opportunities to study a modern foreign language alongside your course through our Modern Languages Programme.
• Our team of academic staff are ranked in the top 5 in the UK for the quality of their research publications (REF 2014).

• Our study of language will take a systematic look at language and how humans use it in everyday life. On this course, language is studied as a human behaviour from a number of viewpoints including its structure (e.g. syntax, phonetics, semantics), its function (e.g. in conversation, translation, persuasion and manipulation); its acquisition (e.g. child language acquisition, multilingualism, language teaching) and its impact or application in the world (e.g. language and power, forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics, subtitling, humour).

​​​​​​Entry Requirements

• You may be considered for entry onto Undergraduate courses if your Standard XII award (i.e. HSSC) was awarded by CBSE, CISCE or Metro state boards. Otherwise you may need to complete an access (foundation) programme.

English language requirements 

• IELTS :6.0 with no lower than 5.5 in any element.
• PTE:51

University of Huddersfield Cost of Attendance

The estimated cost of attendance for international students living in UK for the year 2021-2022 is tabulated below: