2023 Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
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Ranked Colleges
2,877
Degrees Awarded
$26,729
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly for Foreign Languages & Linguistics for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Foreign Languages & Linguistics is the 24th most popular major in the country with 33,333 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, foreign languages and linguistics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,172 and had an average of $22,048 in loans still to pay off.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2,877 foreign languages and linguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality foreign languages and linguistics programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the foreign languages and linguistics program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Foreign Languages & Linguistics for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Foreign Languages & Linguistics for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Weber State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Foreign Languages & Linguistics for an Associate list. Ogden, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s foreign languages and linguistics degrees to 78 students in 2020-2021.
WSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Associate Degree Schools” list.Of the 29,596 students enrolled at WSU, 747 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 472 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,815. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at WSU]](/colleges/weber-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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