2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Foreign Languages & Linguistics in Alaska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” 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 Alaska, there were 34 foreign languages and linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 foreign languages and linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in foreign languages and linguistics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular foreign languages and linguistics programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Foreign Languages & Linguistics in Alaska

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s list. UAF is a public institution located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Foreign Languages & Linguistics at UAF

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University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Foreign Languages & Linguistics Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s. UAA is a fairly large school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 13 bachelors’s foreign languages and linguistics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Foreign Languages & Linguistics at University of Alaska Anchorage

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