2024 Best Linguistics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
13Doctor's Degrees
If you pursue a doctor's degree in linguistics, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #82 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for linguistics students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 13 doctor's degrees in linguistics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Linguistics School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of linguistics for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality linguistics program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on linguistics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other linguistics students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized linguistics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for linguistics students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Linguistics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Linguistics in the Southeast Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for linguistics students seeking a a doctor's degree.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Linguistics
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).