Linguistics at Reed College

Every linguistics school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the linguistics program at Reed College stacks up to those at other schools.

Reed is located in Portland, Oregon and approximately 1,385 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.

Reed Linguistics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

Reed Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at Reed 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 Reed

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

Reed Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Reed since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Reed 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 Reed College with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• 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 OR, the home state for Reed College.

Occupation	Jobs in OR	Average Salary in OR
Interpreters and Translators	1,210	$50,090
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	470	$72,020

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 Visitor7 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.