2025 Best Sign Language Interpretation & Translation Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
322Sign Language Interpretation and Translation Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in sign language interpretation & translation, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #401 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for sign language interpretation & translation students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 322 degrees in sign language interpretation & translation annually.
Choosing a Great Sign Language Interpretation & Translation School
The sign language interpretation and translation program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Sign Language Interpretation & Translation rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for sign language interpretation & translation schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Sign Language Interpretation & Translation Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Sign Language Interpretation & Translation Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Sign Language Interpretation & Translation in the Great Lakes Region
The schools below may not offer all types of sign language interpretation and translation degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Sign Language Interpretation and Translation
Kent State University at Kent is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in sign language interpretation & translation. Kent State is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Kent. A Best Colleges rank of #250 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Kent State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 9 sign language interpretation & translation students who graduated with this degree at Kent State in the most recent data year.
Siena Heights University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in sign language interpretation & translation. Siena Heights University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the town of Adrian. This university ranks 23rd out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 12 sign language interpretation & translation students who graduated with this degree at Siena Heights University in the most recent year we have data available.
42Sign Language Interpretation and Translation Degrees Awarded
Any student pursuing a degree in sign language interpretation & translation needs to take a look at Lansing Community College. LCC is a medium-sized public college located in the city of Lansing. This college ranks 26th out of 56 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 42 sign language interpretation & translation students who graduated with this degree at LCC in the most recent data year.
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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