2025 Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
116Master's Degrees
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.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 116 master's degrees in linguistics & comparative literature to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Linguistics & Comparative Literature School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of linguistics & comparative literature for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality comparative literature program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to linguistics & comparative literature students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other linguistics & comparative literature students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for linguistics & comparative literature to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
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 colleges for linguistics & comparative literature students working on their master's degree.
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 Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of linguistics & comparative literature for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality comparative literature program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
