2025 Best Romance Languages Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas

a doctor's degree in romance languages is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #67 out of 306 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for romance languages students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 25 doctor's degrees in romance languages during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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

The romance languages school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Romance Languages Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Romance Languages in Texas

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in romance languages.

Top Texas Schools for a Doctorate in Romance Languages

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

11 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in romance languages needs to look into The University of Texas at Austin. UT Austin is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Austin.More information about a doctorate in romance languages from The University of Texas at Austin

2

University of Houston
Houston, TX

10 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of Houston if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in romance languages. UH is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Houston.More information about a doctorate in romance languages from University of Houston

Best Romance Languages Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Romance Languages Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Arizona	119	7
Oklahoma	92	1
New Mexico	59	1

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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
Spanish Language & Literature	14
General Hispanic & Latin American Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics	7
French Language & Literature	4

Majors Similar to Romance Languages

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	16
Classical Languages & Literature	4
East Asian Languages	2
Germanic Languages	2
Middle Eastern Semitic 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.