语言学背景为个人准备了各种各样的职业做好了准备。当前，增长最快的领域是技术，其中语言学家致力于语音识别，自然语言处理，信息检索以及各种基于Web的项目。语言学毕业生可能会继续从事教育，商业，政府和出版等工作。我们的课程还为专业领域（商业，医学和法律）的研究生工作以及学术界的职业提供了出色的准备。
Linguistics majors cultivate skills that are exceptionally well suited to the 21st-century workforce. Our Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics equips you with marketable expertise in communication, logic and information structure, qualifying you for jobs in up-and-coming sectors such as artificial intelligence, speech recognition and data science. In addition, linguistics majors excel at writing, research and team collaboration, while gaining specialized knowledge for linguistics careers such as speech language pathology, English language instruction, psychology, and other social science fields. Whatever direction your career takes, our linguistics degree provides you with versatility and technological fluency that have value in nearly every industry. Because of our location, Oakland's linguistics major offers excellent opportunities for emerging careers in linguistics. Southeast Michigan is a hub of innovation in technologies that require linguistics expertise, including artificial intelligence, voice recognition and natural-language-based computing.