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*The estimated net prices above are College Raptor’s estimate. Please contact the college financial aid office for actual net cost figures.
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Institution | Scaled Score | Acceptance Rate | Annual Degrees Awarded | SAT Score | Est. Net Price * | Median Starting Salary | Save | |
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![]() Georgetown University Washington, DC At Georgetown University, the most popular majors students study are...view more | 100 | 13% | 40 | 1,410 – 1,540 | $37,967 | $51,582 | ||
![]() Brigham Young University Provo, UT At Brigham Young University, the three most popular college majors students...view more | 89 | 69% | 13 | 1,310 – 1,440 | $14,643 | $49,672 | ||
![]() University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI At the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the most popular majors students study...view more | 84 | 70% | 14 | 1,030 – 1,260 | $14,557 | $50,375 | ||
![]() California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA Annually, California State University-Long Beach grants around 1284 degrees...view more | 81 | 47% | 15 | 1,030 – 1,240 | $9,731 | $48,301 | ||
![]() CUNY City College New York, NY Every year, CUNY City College grants about 414 degrees to those studying...view more | 81 | 58% | 9 | 1,220 – 1,460 | $4,599 | $47,105 | ||
![]() Yale University New Haven, CT Yale offers students seventy possible majors, which must be declared by sophomore or junior years, but...view more | 81 | 4% | 8 | 1,490 – 1,570 | $26,044 | $45,748 | ||
![]() University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO Every year, the University of Colorado Boulder awards around 1201 degrees to...view more | 80 | 83% | 12 | 1,260 – 1,440 | $22,640 | $52,968 | ||
![]() Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL At Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, the most popular majors students...view more | 79 | 90% | 11 | 940 – 1,180 | $16,131 | $50,618 | ||
![]() Benedictine University Lisle, IL At Benedictine University, the three most popular college majors students...view more | 78 | 77% | 23 | 1,030 – 1,300 | $24,570 | $52,557 | ||
![]() Boston University Boston, MA At Boston University, the most popular majors students pursue are Business...view more | 78 | 11% | 19 | 1,410 – 1,520 | $27,551 | $53,259 |
*The estimated net prices above are College Raptor’s estimate. Please contact the college financial aid office for actual net cost figures.
A program that focuses on language, language development, and relationships among languages and language groups from a humanistic and/or scientific perspective. Includes instruction in subjects such as psycholinguistics, behavioral linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, mathematical and computational linguistics, grammatical theory and theoretical linguistics, philosophical linguistics, philology and historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, phonetics, phonemics, dialectology, semantics, functional grammar and linguistics, language typology, lexicography, morphology and syntax, orthography, stylistics, structuralism, rhetoric, and applications to artificial intelligence.
Students majoring in Linguistics can advance up to a Masters degree. On average, 62% percent of women and 38% percent of men make up the degrees awarded across all college campuses. Linguistics is has the largest number of granted degrees in California. The Median Starting Salary for an undergraduate degree in Linguistics is $44,500.
Majoring in Linguistics, your education can be applied to different careers. Linguistics majors go on to find jobs including Interpreters and Translators and Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary which are in high demand. Some of the jobs with the highest salary for Linguistics majors include Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary, Interpreters and Translators .
These are the highest paying careers for Linguistics majors.
Career | Median Salary | Average Annual Job Openings | Employment 2022 | Employment 2032 | % Change | |
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Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary | $77,010 | 614 | 7,582 | 7,675 | 1% | |
Interpreters and Translators | $59,440 | 1,130 | 10,785 | 11,256 | 4% |
These are the careers in highest demand for Linguistics majors.
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