2025 Best Portuguese Schools in the Great Lakes Region

If you're seeking a degree in portuguese, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #1010 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Portuguese Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 5 degrees in portuguese to qualified students.

Jump to one of the following sections: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Portuguese Schools List

Portuguese Rankings by Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Portuguese Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

If you want to learn more about how we derive our rankings, see College Factual's Methodology.

Best Schools for Portuguese in the Great Lakes Region

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the portuguese degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Portuguese

1

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Wisconsin - Madison is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in portuguese. Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a degree in portuguese from University of Wisconsin - Madison

2

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Ohio State University - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in portuguese. Ohio State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Columbus.More information about a degree in portuguese from Ohio State University - Main Campus

Best Portuguese Colleges by State

Explore the best portuguese colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	939	5
Illinois	870	3
Indiana	737	0
Wisconsin	672	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Portuguese

One of 8 majors within the Romance Languages area of study, Portuguese has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Portuguese

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Spanish Language & Literature	1,699
French Language & Literature	426
General Hispanic & Latin American Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics	62
Italian Language & Literature	52
Other Romance Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics	45
General Romance Languages	8

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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 Susana Freixeiro.

More about our data sources and methodologies.