2025 Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Master's Degree Schools in Illinois
2Colleges in Illinois
68Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in linguistics & comparative literature, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #103 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for linguistics & comparative literature students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 68 master's degrees in linguistics & comparative literature to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master'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
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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that 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
