2025 Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

a master's degree in linguistics & comparative literature is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #103 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 222 master's degrees in linguistics & comparative literature to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Linguistics & Comparative Literature School for Your Master's Degree

The comparative literature master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on linguistics & comparative literature students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of linguistics & comparative literature students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt linguistics & comparative literature students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized linguistics & comparative literature related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for linguistics & comparative literature students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Linguistics & Comparative Literature Schools

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 & Comparative Literature Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Linguistics & Comparative Literature in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for linguistics & comparative literature students seeking a a master's degree.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Comparative Literature

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Georgetown University
Washington, DC

40 Annual Graduates

Georgetown University is a wonderful choice for individuals pursuing a master's degree in linguistics & comparative literature. Georgetown is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington.More information about a master’s in linguistics & comparative literature from Georgetown University

2

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

11 Annual Graduates

University of Delaware is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in linguistics & comparative literature. Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in linguistics & comparative literature from University of Delaware

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Hunter College
New York, NY

12 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in linguistics & comparative literature needs to take a look at Hunter College. Hunter is a very large public college located in the city of New York.More information about a master’s in linguistics & comparative literature from Hunter College

Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Colleges by State

Explore the best linguistics & comparative literature colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	159
Pennsylvania	248	21
Maryland	193	1
New Jersey	188	16
District of Columbia	154	17
Delaware	109	14

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Linguistics & Comparative Literature Related Rankings by Major

One of 18 majors within the Foreign Languages & Linguistics area of study, Linguistics & Comparative Literature has other similar majors worth exploring.

Comparative Literature Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Linguistics	121
Comparative Literature	42
Language Translation	33
Modern Languages	25
Other Linguistic, Comparative, & Related Language Studies & Services	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Comparative Literature

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Romance Languages	182
East Asian Languages	76
Classical Languages & Literature	62
American Sign Language	49
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	48
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	29
Germanic Languages	13
Second Language Learning	7
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other)	2

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Pandit Rahul Sanskrutayan, Banshidhar Mohanty. More about our data sources and methodologies.