Romance Languages is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #44 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 29 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of romance languages. Combined, these schools handed out 1,391 bachelor's degrees in romance languages to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Romance Languages School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of romance languages for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 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 bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor'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 much a school focuses on romance languages students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of romance languages students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 romance languages to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized romance languages related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for romance languages students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
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.
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It is difficult to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in romance languages. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the romance languages program at Columbia University in the City of New York earn $17,566 above the standard graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
Georgetown University is a good choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in romance languages. Located in the city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the romance languages major at Georgetown University get $9,429 above the average graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
Cornell University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in romance languages. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca.
After graduation, romance languages bachelor's recipients usually make around $33,419 at the beginning of their careers.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in romance languages has to look into University of Maryland - College Park. UMCP is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of College Park.
Romance Languages bachelor's degree recipients from University of Maryland - College Park get an earnings boost of about $2,755 over the typical income of romance languages graduates.
Located in the town of Lewisburg, Bucknell is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Romance Languages bachelor's degree recipients from Bucknell University earn a boost of around $14,359 above the typical income of romance languages majors.
Colgate is a small private not-for-profit university located in the rural area of Hamilton.
Bachelor's recipients from the romance languages degree program at Colgate University get $16,780 more than the average college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Located in the large suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.
Those romance languages students who get their bachelor's degree from Villanova University earn $8,327 more than the average romance languages student.
Hamilton is a small private not-for-profit college located in the medium-sized suburb of Clinton.
Bachelor's recipients from the romance languages major at Hamilton College earn $5,185 above the average graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Gettysburg is a small private not-for-profit college located in the fringe town of Gettysburg.
Those romance languages students who get their bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College receive $7,307 more than the typical romance languages student.
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).