Best Classical Languages & Literature Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

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

The classical languages doctor'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

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree 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 doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 doctor'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 easy is it for classical languages & literature to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• 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 colleges for classical languages & literature students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Due to absent data, we could not show you the classical languages & literature quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer classical languages & literature and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Instead, check out 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 by State

Explore the best classical languages & literature colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	4
New York	174	9
Maryland	119	3
New Jersey	115	6
District of Columbia	81	0

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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	34

Majors Similar to Classical Languages

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Romance Languages	113
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	100
East Asian Languages	11
Germanic Languages	11
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	9
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	5
American Sign Language	2
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other)	2

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.