Below you will find a list of colleges, K-12 programs, and universities in North America that regularly offer instruction in South Asian Languages. Please contact us if you do not see your institution listed, would like edit your institution’s offerings, or add contact information for your program. A similar list may also be found here: https://aaslanguagedatabase.wisc.edu/south-asian-languages/
| Name of Institution | Languages Offered | Website and Contact Information |
| ALIA (Apex Language Institute of America) | Urdu (also Arabic) | ALIA |
| Boston University | Hindi-Urdu | Department of World Languages and Literatures; Shilpa Parnami |
| Brown University | Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit | Hindi-Urdu: Center for Language Studies; Ashok Koul (Hindi-Urdu) Sanskrit: Department of Classics; David Buchta (Sanskrit) See Also: Center for Contemporary South Asia |
| Columbia University | Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu | South Asia Institute |
| Cornell University | Hindi-Urdu, Kannada, Nepali, Pali, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil, Tibetan | Department of Asian Studies See Also: South Asia Program |
| DeAnza College | Hindi (College Credit also available to High School Students) | Hindi Department; Nilu Gupta |
| Duke University | Hindi | Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Satendra Khanna, Kusum Knapczyk |
| Emory University | Hindi-Urdu, Tibetan | Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Hindi-Urdu: Brajesh Samarth, Prema Gandhi Tibetan: Tsepak Rigzin |
| Harvard University | Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit, Tamil, Tibetan (Classical), Additional languages often offered not as part of regular curriculum | Department of South Asian Studies Hindi-Urdu: Richard Delacy, Hajnalka Kovacs Sanskrit: Nell S. Hawley Tamil: Jonathan Ripley Tibetan: Penghao Sun, Xiaotian Yin |
| Indiana University, Bloomington | Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit | Dhar India Studies Program Hindi-Urdu: Kashika Singh Sanskrit: Rebecca Manring |
| Indus Arts Council | Urdu | Urdu Classes for K-12 Contact IAC Urdu Admin |
| Institute of South Asian Language Studies | Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu | Website: https://sals.institute/ Contact whusain1@sals.institute |
| Johns Hopkins University – SAIS | Hindi | Center for Language Education Hindi: Radhi Datla |
| McGill University | Sanskrit, Tibetan, Urdu-Hindi | South Asian Studies Program Sanskrit: Timothy Lorndale (Religious Studies) Tibetan: Urdu-Hindi: Pasha Khan |
| Michigan State University | Hindi, Urdu | Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages Sean Pue, Rajiv Ranjan |
| New York State University, Buffalo | Hindi-Urdu | South Asian Studies Vandana Iyer |
| New York University | Hindi, Urdu | Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Gabriela Nik. Ilieva (Hindi) Rajni Bhargava (Hindi) Tahira Naqvi (Urdu) See also: South Asia at NYU |
| North Carolina State University | Hindi-Urdu | Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Sujata Mody; Nilakshi Phukan |
| Northwestern University | Hindi, Urdu | Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Rami Nair (Hindi) David Boyk (Urdu) |
| Oakton Community College | Hindi-Urdu | Department of Modern Languages Ifitikhar Haider |
| Ohio State University | Hindi-Urdu | Preeti Palvankar |
| Pennsylvania State University | Hindi | Department of Asian Studies Suschmita Sen Ritu Jayakar See Also: Summer Language Institute |
| Princeton University | Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit | Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Fauzia Farooqui (Hindi-Urdu) Robert Philips (Hindi-Urdu) Nataliya Yanchevskaya (Sanskrit) |
| Rutgers University | Hindi, Urdu | Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures Shaheen Parveen Anuja Kabra |
| Stanford University | Hindi, Tibetan, Sanskrit | Language Center Robert Clark (Tibetan) Fred R. Porta (Sanskrit) Sonia Taneja (Hindi) |
| Syracuse University | Hindi | Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Tej K. Bhatia Bhanushri Sisodia |
| Temple University | Hindi | Asian & Middle Eastern Languages & Studies Milind Ranade |
| University of British Columbia | Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Sanskrit | Department of Asian Studies Sunil Bhatt (Hindi-Urdu) Gurinder Mann (Punjabi) Anusha Sudindra Rao (Sanskrit) Sloane Geddes (Sanskrit) |
| University of California, Berkeley | Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu | Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies Abhijeet Paul (Bangla) Nora Melnikova (Hindi) Upkar K. Ubhi (Punjabi) Sally J. Sutherland Goldman (Sanskrit) S. Bharathy (Tamil and Telugu) Gregory Maxwell Bruce (Urdu) See Also: Institute for South Asia Studies |
| University of California, Davis | Hindi-Urdu | Department of Middle East/South Asia Studies Poonam Chauhan (Hindi) Shagufta Fatema (Hindi-Urdu) |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Hindi-Urdu | Asian Languages and Cultures Gyanam Mahajan |
| University of California, San Diego | Hindi | Shaurya Arya |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | Hindi, Sanskrit | Department of Religious Studies Gregory Hillis (Sanskrit, Tibetan) No Regular Hindi Instructor |
| University of Chicago | Bangla, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Tibetan, Urdu | Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations Mandira Bhaduri and Thibaut d’Hubert (Bangla) Jason Grunebaum, Ulrike Stark, and Tyler Williams (Hindi) Sujata Mahajan (Marathi) Gary Tubb and Whitney Cox (Sanskrit) E. Annamalai and Sascha Ebeling (Tamil) Karma Ngodup (Tibetan) Muzaffar Alam and Timsal Masud (Urdu) |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | Hindi-Urdu | Asian Languages and Civilizations Nidhi Arya Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya |
| University of Connecticut | Hindi | Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Saroj Kashwan |
| University of Hawaii, Manoa | Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit | Indo-Pacific Languages Sai Bhatwadekar (Hindi-Urdu) Jesse Knutson (Sanskrit) |
| University of Houston | Hindi | Modern and Classical Languages Bhavya Tiwari |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Hindi | Department of Linguistics Mithilesh Mishra |
| University of Kansas | Hindi, Tibetan | East Asian Languages & Cultures Patricia Sabarwal (Hindi) Champa Lhunpo (Tibetan) |
| University of Massachusetts – Five College Foreign Language Resource | Hindi-Urdu and other independent language study | Center for World Languages No regular faculty |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil | Asian Languages and Cultures Faijul Hoque (Bangla) Syed Ekhteyar Ali (Hindi-Urdu) Bairam Khan (Hindi-Urdu) Premlata (Pinki) Vaishnava (Hindi-Urdu) Pinderjeet K. Gill (Hindi and Punjabi) David Brick (Sanskrit) Vidya Mohan (Tamil) |
| University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | Hindi-Urdu | Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Meraj Ahmed |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Hindi-Urdu | Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies John Caldwell Afroz Taj |
| University of Pennsylvania | Bangla, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu | Department of South Asia Studies Haimanti Banerjee (Bangla) Amrit Gahunia (Hindi and Punjabi) Joshua Pien (Hindi and Urdu) Vijayalakshmi Swaminathan (Kannada) James Kurichi (Malayalam) Milind Ranade (Marathi) (Sanskrit) Vasu Renganathan (Tamil) Afsar Mohammad (Telugu) Mustafa Menai (Urdu) |
| University of Pittsburgh | Hindi | Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center Vibha Shetiya |
| University of Texas, Austin | Bangla, Hindi, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu | Ahmed Shamim (Bangla) Dalpat Rajpurohit (Hindi-Urdu) Gautami Shah (Hindi) Mansi Bajaj (Hindi) Darsana Manayathu Sasi (Mayalayam) Claire Maes (Sanskrit) Anandakrishnan Balakrishnan (Tamil) Shanaz Hassan (Urdu) S. Akbar Hyder (Urdu) |
| University of Toronto – Mississauga | Hindi, Urdu | Department of Language Studies Hansa Deep (Hindi) Bilal Hashmi (Urdu) |
| University of Virginia | Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit | Griffith Chausée (Hindi-Urdu) Abdul Nasir (Hindi-Urdu) Robert Hueckstedt (Sanskrit) |
| University of Washington | Bangla, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu | Department of Asian Languages and Literature Nandini Abedin (Bangla) Jameel Ahmad (Hindi, Urdu) Amruta Chandekar (Hindi, Sanskrit) Jennifer Dubrow (Hindi, Urdu, Literature) Prem Pahlajrai (Hindi) Heidi Pauwels (Hindi, Literature) Joseph Marino (Sanskrit) |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | Hindi, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Urdu | Department of Asian Languages and Cultures M. Farooq Asif (Urdu) Zara Chowdhary (Hindi) Gudrun Bühnemann (Sanskrit) Jampa Khedup (Tibetan) See Also: South Asia Summer Language Institute |
| Vanderbilt University | Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit | Department of Asian Studies Divya Chaudhry (Hindi-Urdu) Elliott McCarter (Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit) |
| Wake Forest University | Hindi-Urdu | Middle East and South Asia Studies Program Peter Knapczyk |
| Washington University | Hindi, Urdu | Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies Meera Jain (Hindi) Madhavi Verma (Hindi) Toqeer Shah (Urdu) |
| Wesleyan University | Hindi-Urdu | South Asia Studies H.M. Fazalehaq |
| Western University | Hindi | Department of Languages and Cultures |
| William Paterson University | Department of Languages and Cultures | |
| Yale University | Hindi, Sanskrit, Other Directed Studies | South Asia Studies Council at MacMillan Center https://southasia.macmillan.yale.edu/ Seema Khurana (Hindi) seema.khurana@yale.edu Swapna Sharma (Hindi) swapna.sharma@yale.edu Aleksandar Uskokov (Sanskrit) aleksandar.uskokov@yale.edu Yale Hindi Debate (est 2008) www.yalehindidebate.org Directed Independent Study for other SALs https://cls.yale.edu/programs/dils/languages-studied |
| York University | Hindi-Urdu | Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics Shobna Nijhawan |
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