Romance Languages is a major offered under the foreign languages and linguistics program of study at Grinnell College. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in romance languages, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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Part-time undergraduates at Grinnell paid an average of $1,756 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $56,188 | $56,188 |
Fees | $492 | $492 |
Books and Supplies | $900 | $900 |
On Campus Room and Board | $13,864 | $13,864 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,200 | $2,200 |
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You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Romance Languages students who received their bachelor’s degree at Grinnell took out an average of $16,281 in student loans. That is 26% lower than the national average of $21,936.
romance languages who receive their bachelor’s degree from Grinnell make an average of $28,960 a year during the early days of their career. That is 4% lower than the national average of $30,282.
Online degrees for the Grinnell 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 Grinnell Online Learning page.
About 76.2% 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%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 23.8% of the romance languages bachelor’s degrees at Grinnell in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 40%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 2 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 12 |
International Students | 3 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
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 | 10 |
Spanish Language & Literature | 11 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to romance languages.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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East Asian Languages | 4 |
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages | 3 |
Germanic Languages | 6 |
Classical Languages & Literature | 6 |
*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.