2025 Best Linguistics Schools in the Plains States Region
4Colleges in the Plains States Region
184Linguistics 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.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Linguistics Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 184 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.
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 Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Linguistics in the Plains States 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.
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in linguistics. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #45 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were roughly 25 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Iowa is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in linguistics. Iowa is a very large public university located in the small city of Iowa City. A Best Colleges rank of #80 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Iowa is a great university overall.
There were about 21 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Kansas is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in linguistics. KU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Lawrence. This university ranks 1st out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were about 26 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at KU in the most recent data year.
Iowa State University is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in linguistics. Located in the city of Ames, Iowa State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 37 schools for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were about 27 linguistics students who graduated with this degree at Iowa State 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. 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.
