Bachelor of Arts (BA) Majoring in Languages and Linguistics
Dunedin, New Zealand
BA
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jul 2026
TUITION FEES
NZD 40,100 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international fee | NZD 7800 - 8600 domestic fee
Key Summary
About: The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Languages and Linguistics at The University of Otago offers a tour of the world's 6,000 languages, exploring origins and structure: sounds, words, sentences and meaning. You study linguistics as a science – phonetics, syntax and semantics – and can combine majors and minors across politics, history, anthropology and more, while building critical thinking, communication and cultural insight.
Career Outcomes: Graduates move into language teaching, translation and interpreting, speech‑language therapy, computational linguistics, publishing, journalism, research and education administration; they also find roles in human resources, public relations, digital content and international development, applying analysis, communication and cross‑cultural skills.
A tour through the world's 6,000 languages, learning where they come from and how they are put together: the foundational sounds, words, sentences and meanings of language.
Language underlies all of life - every lecture, every conversation, every society - and linguistics is the scientific study of language. In this class, you will learn how languages around the world work, where they come from, and how to analyse them.
Your future starts here
A Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree lets you explore a range of subjects, from politics, philosophy and history, to criminology, anthropology, music, English and more. The Otago BA is designed to be flexible – giving you the freedom to change your major or minor subjects.
The BA opens up a diverse range of career pathways – it teaches you critical thinking, and how to harness your imagination and empathy to become a great leader and valued team member in any industry.
Turn your passion into a career. Study a BA at Otago.