2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Linguistics in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Linguistics is the 206th most popular major in the country with 3,082 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 184 linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in linguistics. That schools that top this list have a program in linguistics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Linguistics in the Plains States Region

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, this fairly large public school awarded 11 degrees to qualified masters’s linguistics students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UND Linguistics Report

2

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in the Plains States Region. University of Kansas is located in Lawrence, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s linguistics degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Linguistics at University of Kansas

3

University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

#9 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, this large public school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s linguistics students in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Linguistics at University of Iowa

4

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#4 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Linguistics Major in the Plains States Region. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s linguistics degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Linguistics Report

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 Pandit Rahul Sanskrutayan, Banshidhar Mohanty.