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 reviewed 3 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of linguistics. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 95 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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Linguistics Schools in Michigan list to help you make the college decision.
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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.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a great option for students pursuing a degree in linguistics. U-M is a fairly large public university located in the 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 roughly 38 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent year we have data available.
Michigan State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in linguistics. Located in the 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 about 17 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Oakland University if you want to pursue a degree in linguistics. Oakland is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Rochester Hills. This university ranks 10th out of 56 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 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.
