Best Classical Languages & Literature Bachelor’s Degree Colleges in Illinois

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Illinois that made our Best Classical Languages & Literature Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Classical Languages & Literature School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The classical languages bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality classical languages program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on classical languages & literature students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of classical languages & literature students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt classical languages & literature students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized classical languages & literature related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for classical languages & literature students working on their bachelor's degree.

Insufficient Data for Illinois

Unfortunately , we don't have sufficient info to create a ranking of the top quality schools for classical languages & literature in Illinois. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Illinois that both offer classical languages & literature and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Classical Languages & Literature rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Classical Languages & Literature ranking.

Best Classical Languages & Literature Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Classical Languages & Literature Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	261	35
Ohio	252	61
Indiana	235	31
Wisconsin	213	29

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Rankings in Majors Related to Classical Languages

One of 18 majors within the Foreign Languages & Linguistics area of study, Classical Languages & Literature has other similar majors worth exploring.

Classical Languages Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Classics & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics	42
Classics & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, Other	3
Latin Language & Literature	1

Majors Similar to Classical Languages

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Romance Languages	428
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	110
East Asian Languages	25
American Sign Language	19
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	17
Germanic Languages	17
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	5
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other)	1

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.