2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Foreign Languages & Linguistics in Hawaii

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Foreign Languages & Linguistics is the 24th most popular major in the country with 33,333 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, foreign languages and linguistics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,172 and had an average of $22,048 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 198 foreign languages and linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,654 and $21,538 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 foreign languages and linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,195 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in foreign languages and linguistics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in foreign languages and linguistics.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Foreign Languages & Linguistics in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii list. UH Manoa is a fairly large public school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 12 doctorate’s foreign languages and linguistics degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Foreign Languages & Linguistics at UH Manoa

2

University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, Hawaii

#7 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Hilo landed the #2 spot on the list. Hilo, Hawaii is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s foreign languages and linguistics degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Foreign Languages & Linguistics at University of Hawaii at Hilo

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• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Foreign Languages & Linguistics

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to John Stephen Dwyer.