2025 Best Romance Languages Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
2Colleges in the Southwest Region
39Doctor's Degrees
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 the Southwest Region 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 39 doctor's degrees in romance languages during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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
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 - How many other romance languages students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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 romance languages to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
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.
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 the Southwest Region 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
