现代语言学研究始于20世纪初，其目的是要揭示人类语言的深层结构，对语言和语言交际作出客观，科学的描述。跟着出国留学网看看2019QS世界大学现代语言专业排名TOP50。
| 2019QS世界大学现代语言专业排名 | |
| 排名 | 大学名称 |
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | University of Cambridge |
| 3 | University of Oxford |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 5 | Stanford University |
| 6 | Peking University |
| 7 | The University of Tokyo |
| 8 | Yale University |
| 9 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 10 | Columbia University |
| 11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 12 | Kyoto University |
| 13 | Princeton University |
| 14 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 14 | UCL (University College London) |
| 16 | New York University (NYU) |
| 16 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 18 | Seoul National University |
| 19 | Fudan University |
| 19 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 21 | University of Chicago |
| 22 | Waseda University |
| 23 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) |
| 24 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) |
| 25 | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 |
| 26 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 26 | The University of Sydney |
| 28 | The University of Manchester |
| 29 | The Australian National University |
| 30 | University of Toronto |
| 31 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 32 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 32 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 32 | The University of Melbourne |
| 35 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 36 | Tsinghua University |
| 37 | Cornell University |
| 38 | Korea University |
| 39 | Leiden University |
| 40 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) |
| 41 | The University of Auckland |
| 42 | Universidade de São Paulo |
| 42 | Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) |
| 44 | University of Amsterdam |
| 45 | HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies |
| 46 | University of Vienna |
| 47 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 48 | University of British Columbia |
| 49 | King's College London |
| 50 | University of Michigan |
