2024 Best Classical Languages & Literature Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
102Classical Languages Degrees Awarded
Classical Languages & Literature isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #212 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for classical languages & literature students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 102 degrees in classical languages & literature during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Classical Languages & Literature School
Your choice of classical languages & literature school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Classical Languages & Literature School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Classical Languages & Literature Rankings by Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Classical Languages & Literature Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Classical Languages & Literature in Pennsylvania
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the classical languages degree levels they offer.
Bucknell University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in classical languages & literature. Bucknell is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Lewisburg. A Best Colleges rank of #66 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Bucknell is a great university overall.
There were approximately 8 classical languages & literature students who graduated with this degree at Bucknell in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Villanova University if you want to pursue a degree in classical languages & literature. Villanova is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Villanova. This university ranks 5th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 23 classical languages & literature students who graduated with this degree at Villanova in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus if you want to pursue a degree in classical languages & literature. Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh. This university ranks 7th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 9 classical languages & literature students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).