Romance Languages is a major offered under the foreign languages and linguistics program of study at University of California - Berkeley. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in romance languages, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. UC Berkeley is in the top 10% of the country for romance languages. More specifically it was ranked #35 out of 342 schools by College Factual. It is also ranked #3 in California.
Here are some of the other rankings for UC Berkeley.
The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $11,442 | $41,196 |
Fees | $2,870 | $2,870 |
Books and Supplies | $1,091 | $1,091 |
On Campus Room and Board | $20,530 | $20,530 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $5,595 | $5,595 |
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One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley in Romance Languages walked away with an average of $12,048 in student debt. That is 45% lower than the national average of $21,936.
The median early career salary of romance languages students who receive their bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley is $34,704 per year. That is 15% higher than the national average of $30,282.
Online degrees for the UC Berkeley romance languages bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UC Berkeley Online Learning page.
About 73.8% of the students who received their BA in romance languages in 2019-2020 were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 75.6%.
Around 50.0% of romance languages bachelor’s degree recipients at UC Berkeley in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 40%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 3 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 34 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 24 |
International Students | 9 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 9 |
Romance Languages students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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French Language & Literature | 24 |
Italian Language & Literature | 2 |
General Hispanic & Latin American Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics | 54 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to romance languages.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Linguistics & Comparative Literature | 81 |
East Asian Languages | 22 |
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages | 7 |
Germanic Languages | 18 |
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages | 10 |
View All Romance Languages Related Majors >
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.