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Berkeley is a vibrant, diverse Linguistics department, with 15 full-time faculty, six emeritus faculty who still remain in residence, and numerous highly distinguished linguistics faculty in other departments such as Anthropology, East Asian, English, French, German, Psychology, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the School for Information. These full-time, emeritus and allied faculty work together to produce a superlative teaching and research environment. Berkeley faculty have won many awards and written numerous books and articles in top journals.
The Berkeley Linguistics department ranks in the top-10, nationwide, according to the most recent survey by the National Research Council. It has an active graduate student body of some 50 students, and typically graduates around 6 Ph.D's a year. Berkeley PhD-holders have regularly succeeded to top positions in academia.
The department has highly distinguished student bodies at both the graduate and the undergraduate level. With an entering class of 8-10 every year, graduate students receive highly personalized training, allowing them to enter into research early in their careers. Berkeley students routinely travel to national and international conferences to present their research, and have won prestigious grants and awards for their research.