Human Language Technology

College of Social And Behavioral Sciences

Explore the intersection of human language and information technology with an interdisciplinary curriculum covering linguistics, computational linguistics and practical business training.

Human Language Technology (HLT) represents the fastest growing field of language research. Because of its industrial applications, the field provides far more employment opportunities than are available in traditional academic research. Demand is growing for trained HLT professionals including programmers, computational linguists, data scientists and natural language processing engineers. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the program, you will also be prepared for careers in a wide variety of other industries.

Upon completion of your degree, you will have the skills required to advance your career in a competitive workforce. We work closely with internship providers in the industry to provide opportunities for strong hands-on experience in the form of a final project. You will also write a Master’s thesis documenting an actual completed implementation. Possible local industrial internship opportunities include Lockheed Martin (Phoenix), Intel (Chandler), Raytheon (Tucson), and Motorola (Phoenix).

The Master of Science in HLT is designed for students who are interested in going directly into industry rather than going into academia on the PhD track.

*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.