If you plan on majoring in linguistics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #206 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Linguistics Schools in Michigan ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 105 degrees in linguistics to qualified students.
The linguistics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Linguistics rankings. We derive our Best Overall Linguistics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Linguistics Schools in Michigan list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of linguistics degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a good option for students pursuing a degree in linguistics. U-M is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor. A Best Colleges rank of #29 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were approximately 32 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent data year.
Michigan State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in linguistics. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 33 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in linguistics has to check out Wayne State University. Wayne State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Detroit. This university ranks 7th out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 10 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at Wayne State in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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The linguistics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Linguistics rankings. We derive our Best Overall Linguistics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
