2025 Best Linguistics Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
233Linguistics 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 reviewed 3 schools in the New England Region 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 233 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 the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Linguistics in the New England 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.
University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in linguistics. Located in the small city of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 43 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Connecticut is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in linguistics. Located in the fringe town of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #57 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were about 15 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in linguistics has to check out University of Southern Maine. Located in the city of Portland, University of Southern Maine is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 11th out of 19 schools for overall quality in the state of Maine.
There were approximately 16 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at University of Southern Maine in the most recent data year.
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.
