2025 Best Linguistics Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
148Linguistics Degrees Awarded
A degree in linguistics is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #206 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Linguistics Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 148 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for linguistics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Linguistics Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Linguistics in the Rocky Mountains Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the linguistics degree levels they offer.
Brigham Young University - Provo is a great option for students pursuing a degree in linguistics. BYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Provo. This university ranks 3rd out of 11 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were roughly 47 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat University of Utah if you wish to pursue a degree in linguistics. U of U is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City. This university ranks 2nd out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 22 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent data year.
University of Colorado Boulder is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in linguistics. CU - Boulder is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Boulder. A Best Colleges rank of #145 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were approximately 47 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for linguistics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
