Best German Language & Literature Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best German Language & Literature Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great German Language & Literature School for Your Doctor's Degree

The german language doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality german language 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

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.

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 german language & literature students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of german language & 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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized german language & literature related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for german language & literature students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Because of lacking data, we could not show you the german language & literature quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer german language & literature and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

German Language & Literature by Region

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German Language & Literature Related Rankings by Major

German Language & Literature is one of 7 different types of Germanic Languages programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to German Language

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).
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