2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Foreign Language Major in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Foreign Language Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) is the 294th most popular major in the country with 518 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , foreign language, literature & linguistics (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $33,958 and had an average of $23,741 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 149 foreign language, literature & linguistics (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 foreign language, literature & linguistics (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Foreign Language Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in foreign language, literature & linguistics (other). This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in foreign language, literature & linguistics (other).

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Foreign Language Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Foreign Language Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) in the Far Western US Region

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Foreign Language Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #1 spot on the list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other foreign language degrees to 20 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) at UH Manoa

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University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, California

#3 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Foreign Language Major in the Far Western US Region list. UC Berkeley is a public institution located in Berkeley, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

Read more about Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) at UC Berkeley

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to John Stephen Dwyer.