Linguistics at Columbia University in the City of New York

60% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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 Columbia University in the City of New York stacks up to those at other schools.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and approximately 30,135 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.

Columbia Linguistics Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

Columbia Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at Columbia 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 Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the linguistics majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

40% Women

60% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 60% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 40% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Columbia since its program graduates 27% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% 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 Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor's in linguistics.

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

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 NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Interpreters and Translators	3,300	$68,940
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	3,130	$87,670

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
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