Linguistics & Comparative Literature is a major offered under the foreign languages and linguistics program of study at Boston University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in comparative literature, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. Boston U is in the top 10% of the country for comparative literature. More specifically it was ranked #13 out of 209 schools by College Factual. It is also ranked #2 in Massachusetts.
Here are some of the other rankings for Boston U.
Part-time undergraduates at Boston U paid an average of $1,777 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $56,854 | $56,854 |
Fees | $1,218 | $1,218 |
Books and Supplies | $1,000 | $1,000 |
On Campus Room and Board | $16,640 | $16,640 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,950 | $1,950 |
Learn more about Boston U tuition and fees.
comparative literature who receive their bachelor’s degree from Boston U make an average of $41,565 a year during the early days of their career. That is 62% higher than the national average of $25,589.
Online degrees for the Boston U comparative literature bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Boston U Online Learning page.
Women made up around 81.0% of the comparative literature students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 70.5%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature at Boston U in 2019-2020, 42.9% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 39%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 4 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 3 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 10 |
International Students | 1 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 3 |
Linguistics & Comparative Literature students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Linguistics | 14 |
Comparative Literature | 4 |
Other Linguistic, Comparative, & Related Language Studies & Services | 3 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to linguistics and comparative literature.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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East Asian Languages | 13 |
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages | 4 |
Romance Languages | 17 |
Classical Languages & Literature | 3 |
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*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.