Romance Languages is a major offered under the foreign languages and linguistics program of study at Vassar College. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in romance languages, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, 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. Vassar is in the top 10% of the country for romance languages. More specifically it was ranked #33 out of 342 schools by College Factual. It is also ranked #5 in New York.
Here are some of the other rankings for Vassar.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at Vassar was $1,842 per credit hour 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 | $60,030 | $60,030 |
Fees | $980 | $980 |
Books and Supplies | $900 | $900 |
On Campus Room and Board | $14,990 | $14,990 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,350 | $1,350 |
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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 Vassar took out an average of $18,366 in student loans. That is 16% lower than the national average of $21,936.
romance languages who receive their bachelor’s degree from Vassar make an average of $37,208 a year during the early days of their career. That is 23% higher than the national average of $30,282.
Online degrees for the Vassar 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 Vassar Online Learning page.
About 73.9% 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%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in romance languages at Vassar in 2019-2020, 26.1% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 40%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 3 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 14 |
International Students | 2 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 3 |
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 | 18 |
Italian Language & Literature | 1 |
Spanish Language & Literature | 4 |
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 | 9 |
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages | 7 |
Germanic Languages | 2 |
*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.