Linguistics & Comparative Literature at Purdue University Northwest

If you plan to study linguistics & comparative literature, take a look at what Purdue University Northwest has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Purdue Northwest is located in Hammond, Indiana and approximately 9,363 students attend the school each year.

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.

Purdue Northwest Linguistics & Comparative Literature Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature

Purdue Northwest Linguistics & Comparative Literature Rankings

The comparative literature major at Purdue Northwest 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.

Comparative Literature Student Demographics at Purdue Northwest

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

Purdue Northwest Linguistics & Comparative Literature Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of comparative literature bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical comparative literature bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% men. So male students are more repesented at Purdue Northwest since its program graduates 20% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% 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 Purdue University Northwest with a bachelor's in comparative literature.

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

Concentrations Within Linguistics & Comparative Literature

The following comparative literature concentations are available at Purdue University Northwest. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Purdue University Northwest. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Modern Languages	4

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 IN, the home state for Purdue University Northwest.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
High School Teachers	19,690	$53,030
Interpreters and Translators	870	$41,700
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	510	$72,500
Social Scientists	180	$82,010

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.