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Linguistics at Iowa State University

Linguistics at Iowa State University

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

Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and has a total student population of 31,822.

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

Iowa State Linguistics Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

Iowa State Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at Iowa State 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 Iowa State

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

Iowa State Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

95% Women
26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 5% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 95% went to women.

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About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Iowa State are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 13
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

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 IA, the home state for Iowa State University.

Occupation Jobs in IA Average Salary in IA
Interpreters and Translators 630 $37,840
Foreign Language and Literature Professors 310 $76,110

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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