General English Literature at Hood College

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

Hood is located in Frederick, Maryland and approximately 2,042 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students received a bachelor's degree in English from Hood.

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

Hood General English Literature Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in English

Hood General English Literature Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks English programs across the country. The following shows how Hood performed in these rankings.

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 English major at Hood is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General English 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
	127
Best General English Literature Schools	166
Most Focused General English Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools	209

Earnings of Hood English Graduates

The median salary of English students who receive their bachelor's degree at Hood is $31,701. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 14% higher than the national average of $27,744 for all English bachelor's degree recipients.

English Student Demographics at Hood

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the English majors at Hood College.

Hood General English Literature Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students earned a bachelor's degree in English from Hood. About 71% of these graduates were women and the other 29% were men. The typical English bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at Hood since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% more racial-ethnic minorities in its English bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Hood College with a bachelor's in English.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Related Majors

Careers That English Grads May Go Into

A degree in English can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MD, the home state for Hood College.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
High School Teachers	19,330	$72,610
English Language and Literature Professors	1,180	$73,490

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 Andrew.Belair under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.