Best Classical Languages & Literature Master’s Degree Colleges in California

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

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

The classical languages master'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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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 for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master'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 - How many other classical languages & literature students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• 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 master'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 master's degree.

Insufficient Data for California

Regrettably , we don't have enough facts to create a ranking of the top quality schools for classical languages & literature in California. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in California that both offer classical languages & literature and provided enough information for us to do a detailed 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 Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Classical Languages & Literature Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	183	2
Oregon	158	2

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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	10

Most Popular Majors Related to Classical Languages

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	170
Romance Languages	119
East Asian Languages	11
Germanic Languages	9
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	6
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	6
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.