2024 Best Romance Languages Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in romance languages, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #67 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Romance Languages Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 23 doctor's degrees in romance languages during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to romance languages students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of romance languages students who choose to seek a doctor'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 romance languages students go into to obtain their doctor'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 romance languages related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for romance languages students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Romance Languages Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Romance Languages in Illinois

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in romance languages.

Top Illinois Schools for a Doctorate in Romance Languages

1

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

13 Annual Graduates

University of Chicago is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in romance languages. UChicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago.More information about a doctorate in romance languages from University of Chicago

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

4 Annual Graduates

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a great choice for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in romance languages. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Champaign.More information about a doctorate in romance languages from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

4 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University of Illinois at Chicago if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in romance languages. Located in the large city of Chicago, UIC is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in romance languages from University of Illinois at Chicago

Best Romance Languages Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Romance Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	149	2
Ohio	144	14
Indiana	132	17
Wisconsin	108	3

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Romance Languages Related Rankings by Major

Romance Languages is one of 18 different types of Foreign Languages & Linguistics programs to choose from.

Romance Languages Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Romance Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics	13
Spanish Language & Literature	6
French Language & Literature	2
General Hispanic & Latin American Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	22
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	14
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	5
Germanic Languages	4
South Asian Languages	3
Classical Languages & Literature	3
East Asian Languages	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 Susana Freixeiro. More about our data sources and methodologies.