2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Linguistics in Pennsylvania
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Linguistics is the 206th most popular major in the country with 3,247 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 138 linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in linguistics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their linguistics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in Pennsylvania
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in Pennsylvania”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Linguistics in Pennsylvania
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in Pennsylvania list. University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is a large school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 3 masters’s linguistics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #2 spot on the list. UPenn is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 masters’s linguistics degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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