American Sign Language at Georgia State University

If you plan to study American Sign Language, take a look at what Georgia State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and approximately 36,360 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 11 students received a bachelor's degree in ASL from Georgia State.

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

Georgia State American Sign Language Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in ASL

Georgia State American Sign Language Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the ASL progam at Georgia State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The ASL major at Georgia State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for American Sign Language. 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 American Sign Language Undergraduate Certificate Schools	35

ASL Student Demographics at Georgia State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the ASL majors at Georgia State University.

Georgia State American Sign Language Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of ASL bachelor's degrees went to men and 82% went to women. The typical ASL bachelor's degree program is made up of only 11% men. So male students are more repesented at Georgia State since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 64% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in ASL at Georgia State are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	7
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Georgia State also has a doctoral program available in ASL. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Germanic Languages
• Romance Languages
• Linguistics & Comparative Literature

Careers That ASL Grads May Go Into

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

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Interpreters and Translators	1,610	$55,670

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
• Image Credit: By Jayingram11 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.