Career options
Linguistics majors are well equipped for both an academic career, and a variety of non-academic professional programmes and careers linked to language.
Since the program is taught in English, graduates of General Linguistics at Bamberg are well-prepared for the international labour market.
Linguists may find employment in the following areas:
- the publishing industry
- archives, libraries or museums
- as technical writers, or as journalists
- education
- as translators or interpreters
- the computer industry (e.g. speech recognition and translation software)
- forensic linguistics
- at universities, in teaching and research
A Master’s degree is also the prerequisite for enrolment in most PhD programs. Graduates who want to pursue an academic career can apply for a PhD program at the Bamberg Graduate School of Linguistics (BaGL), which offers a well-structured interdisciplinary PhD program in linguistics and related subjects.