Linguistics at Harvard University

What traits are you looking for in a linguistics school? To help you decide if Harvard University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's linguistics program.

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and approximately 30,391 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.

Harvard Linguistics Degrees Available

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

Harvard Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at Harvard 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.

There were 3 students who received their doctoral degrees in linguistics, making the school the #32 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Linguistics Student Demographics at Harvard

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the linguistics majors at Harvard University.

Harvard Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 54% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 46% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Harvard since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% 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 Harvard University with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Harvard Linguistics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 100% of linguistics master's degrees went to men and 0% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 33% men graduate in linguistics each year. Harvard does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 67% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Modern Languages
• 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 MA, the home state for Harvard University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Interpreters and Translators	2,140	$55,600
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	1,580	$84,890

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 Elisa.rolle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.