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Linguistics at William & Mary

Linguistics at William & Mary

If you plan to study linguistics, take a look at what William & Mary has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

William & Mary is located in Williamsburg, Virginia and approximately 8,939 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.

William & Mary Linguistics Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

William & Mary Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at William & Mary 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 William & Mary

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the linguistics majors at William & Mary.

William & Mary Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

78% Women
35% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 22% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 78% went to women.

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About 61% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in linguistics at William & Mary are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 14
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

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 VA, the home state for William & Mary.

Occupation Jobs in VA Average Salary in VA
Interpreters and Translators 2,000 $70,770
Foreign Language and Literature Professors 940 $68,850

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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