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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 foreign languages and linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,867 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in foreign languages and linguistics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their foreign languages and linguistics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’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 Master’s Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii list. This fairly large school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 17 masters’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%.

Full University of Hawaii at Manoa Foreign Languages & Linguistics Report

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University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, Hawaii

#7 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Hilo. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Hawaii list. University of Hawaii at Hilo is a small public school situated in Hilo, Hawaii. It awarded 1 masters’s foreign languages and linguistics degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Hawaii at Hilo Foreign Languages & Linguistics Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Foreign Languages & Linguistics in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’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.