2024 Best Applied Linguistics Master's Degree Schools
4Colleges in the United States
98Master's Degrees
Applied Linguistics is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #518 out of the 1172 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of applied linguistics. Combined, these schools handed out 98 master's degrees in applied linguistics to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Applied Linguistics School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of applied linguistics for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on applied linguistics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of applied linguistics students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized applied linguistics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for applied linguistics students working on their master's degree.
The applied linguistics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Applied Linguistics Master's Degree Schools.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Applied Linguistics in the United States
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in applied linguistics.
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).