Kid has niche interest (German). How can I tell what colleges are looking for him?

[Anonymous]

I think the OP is asking about linguistics departments, which are usually more rigorous than learning a language for fulfilling core requirements.

With that said, it depends what your kid wants to do, such as general or applied, computational/machine learning, or cognitive science. There are avenues for any language in future linguistics research in grad school but not sure how less popular European languages work other than what PPs have said about majoring in a language, which seems very limiting without a second major/minor, unless you want to go the grad school route anyway.

[Anonymous]

UMass has a German-STEM program and would probably give him a nice scholarship. My son is in the program and will be on an exchange at the Max Planck Institute next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMass has a German-STEM program and would probably give him a nice scholarship. My son is in the program and will be on an exchange at the Max Planck Institute next year.

UMass also has a German program (without the STEM): https://www.umass.edu/german/undergraduate-program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMass has a German-STEM program and would probably give him a nice scholarship. My son is in the program and will be on an exchange at the Max Planck Institute next year.

That is a very cool program! Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

I don't think OP is asking what schools have good German departments. you can google that.

They're asking how to find out what's going on in individual departments at various high (I'm assuming) colleges.

I think there is a site that has number of graduates per major. I dont know how you'd line that up with size of department beyond googling faculty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMass has a German-STEM program and would probably give him a nice scholarship. My son is in the program and will be on an exchange at the Max Planck Institute next year.

this sounds v cool

[Anonymous]

FWIW, my DC took German at UVA because two years are required of most stidents. She loved it and side perk was traveling with other UVA students and the Professor to Berlin during the Christman break. For grad school, she also resumed her German studies at a British university - a big plus in that environment. Look online to see how deep the UVA major goes. check German clubs

[Anonymous]

I've seen some schools list graduates by major. Maybe start there?

I'm sure there's a play about finding research dollars, but I dont know how to do that

[Anonymous]

No one cares about German. If it was Russian or Chinese or Arabic he'd have interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t Middlebury have a strong languages department?

Yes. Unusually strong.

[Anonymous]

Carleton has a German major with an off-campus studies program in Austria led by Carleton professors.

https://www.carleton.edu/german/

[Anonymous]

she's not asking about German major

[Anonymous]

google

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the OP is asking about linguistics departments, which are usually more rigorous than learning a language for fulfilling core requirements.

With that said, it depends what your kid wants to do, such as general or applied, computational/machine learning, or cognitive science. There are avenues for any language in future linguistics research in grad school but not sure how less popular European languages work other than what PPs have said about majoring in a language, which seems very limiting without a second major/minor, unless you want to go the grad school route anyway.

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[Anonymous]

My nephew had a great experience with linguistics and German at Georgetown. Very helpful professors in both departments and an overall excellent undergraduate experience.