Linguistics at California State University - Long Beach

Every linguistics school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the linguistics program at California State University - Long Beach stacks up to those at other schools.

CSULB is located in Long Beach, California and approximately 40,069 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.

CSULB Linguistics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics
• Master’s Degree in Linguistics

CSULB Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at CSULB 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 CSULB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the linguistics majors at California State University - Long Beach.

CSULB Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 39% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 61% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at CSULB since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 36% 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 California State University - Long Beach with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	5
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

CSULB Linguistics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of linguistics master's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 33% men graduate in linguistics each year. CSULB does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 14% more men than average.

In the linguistics master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 40% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Long Beach with a master's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	6
International Students	2
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 CA, the home state for California State University - Long Beach.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Interpreters and Translators	9,310	$58,180
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	2,700	$114,690

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 Summum under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.