Linguistics at Brown University

What traits are you looking for in a linguistics school? To help you decide if Brown University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's linguistics program.

Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and approximately 9,948 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Linguistics section at the bottom of this page.

Brown Linguistics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

Brown Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at Brown is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Linguistics. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Linguistics Student Demographics at Brown

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the linguistics majors at Brown University.

Brown Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Brown since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its linguistics bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Comparative Literature

Careers That Linguistics Grads May Go Into

A degree in linguistics can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for RI, the home state for Brown University.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	150	$85,670
Interpreters and Translators	110	$50,380

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Ad Meskens under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.