Linguistics & Comparative Literature at Eastern Illinois University

If you are interested in studying linguistics and comparative literature, you may want to check out the program at Eastern Illinois University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 8,626 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 7 comparative literature majors received their bachelor's degree from EIU.

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

EIU Linguistics & Comparative Literature Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature

EIU Linguistics & Comparative Literature Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the comparative literature progam at EIU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The comparative literature major at EIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Linguistics & Comparative Literature. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Linguistics & Literature Schools	207

Comparative Literature Student Demographics at EIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the comparative literature majors at Eastern Illinois University.

EIU Linguistics & Comparative Literature Bachelor’s Program

The comparative literature program at EIU awarded 7 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 0% of these degrees went to men with the other 100% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% more racial-ethnic minorities in its comparative literature bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

EIU also has a doctoral program available in comparative literature. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Comparative Literature Grads May Go Into

A degree in comparative literature can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
High School Teachers	43,720	$72,370
English Language and Literature Professors	3,120	$65,860
Interpreters and Translators	1,970	$46,320
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	870	$70,480
Social Scientists	650	$78,140

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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.