2025 Best Linguistics Schools in the Great Lakes Region
8Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
389Linguistics Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in linguistics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #206 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Linguistics Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 389 degrees in linguistics annually.
The linguistics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Linguistics rankings. We derive our Best Overall Linguistics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Linguistics in the Great Lakes Region
The schools below may not offer all types of linguistics degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's difficult to beat University of Michigan - Ann Arbor if you want to pursue a degree in linguistics. U-M is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor. A Best Colleges rank of #22 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were about 38 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if you want to pursue a degree in linguistics. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #41 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UIUC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 38 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Ohio State University - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a degree in linguistics. Ohio State is a very large public university located in the large city of Columbus. This university ranks 1st out of 91 colleges for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were approximately 46 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at Ohio State in the most recent data year.
Indiana University - Bloomington is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in linguistics. IU Bloomington is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Bloomington. A Best Colleges rank of #30 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means IU Bloomington is a great university overall.
There were about 31 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at IU Bloomington in the most recent data year.
Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #40 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were approximately 20 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 17 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent data year.
SIUC is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Carbondale. This university ranks 36th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 13 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at SIUC in the most recent data year.
Oakland is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Rochester Hills. This university ranks 10th out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were approximately 13 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at Oakland in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The linguistics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Linguistics rankings. We derive our Best Overall Linguistics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
