MA in Spanish/Hispanic linguistics

[cadwallader]

Hello everyone,

 

I am a graduate student from Spain and I applied for the MA in Spanish/Hispanic Linguistics at the universities of Ohio State, Arizona and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have already been admitted to Illinois and Ohio State, fully funded in both programs thanks to a teaching assistantship. I am still waiting for Arizona's answer, but I believe and hope I will be admitted on the same terms or even better.

 

Now I beg you Americans for some help. My question is ¿What is the best option from the academic point of view? ¿Is Arizona's Department of Spanish at the same level as Illinois and Ohio State? ¿And what about the cities (Columbus, Urbana-Champaign, Tucson)? I have read many good things about Tucson, ¿is it a good place? I've also heard that Columbus is kind of awful off-campus and Champaign is really small, isn't it. ¿Which do you think is the best place to spend two years of my life doing my MA? 

 

At this moment my ranking goes like this: 1 Arizona, 2 Illinois 3 Ohio State...but I may be absolutely wrong ¿Opinions?

 

Thank you very much for your help

[ktwho]

Hello, m1k1,

 

I would recommend that you re-post this over in the Lit forum.  Even though the fields might be different, I believe there are people in all of those cities/campuses who are actively posting.

 

From my own experience, many people came from Champaign to teach at my BA institution and LOVED the department and city (small though it may be).  L-O-V-E-D.  I had one prof who'd been in Columbus and she never mentioned it like she did her later institutions.  That's about all I can help!

 

Good luck; sounds like you have some great offers!!