The results of the QS World University Rankings by Subject have just been published, where Linguistics achieved a particularly outstanding result among the fields of research at the University of Tartu.
Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics
Research in the institute covers a broad range of linguistic topics, focusing on Estonian and other Finno-Ugric languages but also including other languages. We teach Estonian and several other Finno-Ugric languages. The quality of our linguistic research and teaching is evident from our placement in the top 200 universities in the world in the field of linguistics (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024). Our researchers investigate aspects of morphosyntax, semantics and phonetics as well as sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics.
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Our institute has 4 departments, 2 laboratories and 4 centres, including 1 interdisciplinary consortium. The institute employs 101 people, including 6 professors, 13 associate professors, 14 lecturers, 21 researchers, 3 junior lecturer, 28 junior researchers and 2 teachers. The institute has 6 programmes, including 1 Bachelor's programme, 4 Master's programmes and 1 Doctoral degree programme. There are 225 students, including 90 in Bachelor's studies, 97 in Master's studies and 38 in Doctoral studies. There are 16% or 37 foreign students in the institute.
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The National Research Awards Committee has approved the following researchers from the University of Tartu as nominees for this year’s research awards.
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At the conference “Teaching for Learning 2025: Journey Towards Valued Teaching”, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Aune Valk presented the 2024 teaching awards and the teaching quality award.
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Students on the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. Dorota Baluchová from Slovakia wrote in Estonian about how she ended up studying Estonian in Estonia.
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The Faculty of Arts and Humanities offers optional courses for spring 2025.
