2025 Best Literature Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Literature is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #210 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for literature students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 66 bachelor's degrees in literature to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on literature students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other literature students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for literature to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized literature related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for literature students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Literature Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Literature Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Literature in the Southeast Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for literature students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Literature

1

Duke University
Durham, NC

11 Annual Graduates

Duke University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in literature. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Durham.More information about a bachelor’s in literature from Duke University

2

Sewanee - The University of the South
Sewanee, TN

34 Annual Graduates

Sewanee - The University of the South is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in literature. Located in the rural area of Sewanee, Sewanee is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in literature from Sewanee - The University of the South

Best Literature Colleges by State

Explore the best literature colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	7
Georgia	224	0
Tennessee	220	4
North Carolina	213	8
Louisiana	171	5
Mississippi	169	7

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Rankings in Majors Related to Literature

One of 9 majors within the English Language & Literature area of study, Literature has other similar majors worth exploring.

Literature Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Literature	62
American Literature (United States)	4

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General English Literature	6,594
Writing Studies	1,253
English Literature (Other)	15

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.