The University of Kentucky, based in Lexington KY offers a fully funded Master’s in Linguistics. The Master’s in Linguistics offers training in theoretical frameworks for approaching descriptive and sociolinguistic data with related emphases on historical, corpus, and computational linguistics. Funding opportunities and graduate teaching assistantships are available to qualified students. The Linguistics Program employs teaching assistants in its program for a stipend plus full tuition remission per academic year. Assistantships are renewable for two years while in the MA program provided that the student has made satisfactory progress toward a degree, and is performing satisfactorily as a teacher.