Linguistics at Stanford University

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

Stanford is located in Stanford, California and has a total student population of 15,953.

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

Stanford Linguistics Degrees Available

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

Stanford Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at Stanford 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 4 students who received their doctoral degrees in linguistics, making the school the #23 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Linguistics Student Demographics at Stanford

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

Stanford Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 78% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 22% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Stanford since its program graduates 45% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% 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 Stanford University with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Stanford Linguistics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of linguistics master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

Of the students who received a linguistics master's degree from Stanford, 67% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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

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 CA, the home state for Stanford University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Interpreters and Translators	9,310	$58,180
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	2,700	$114,690

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 Pere Joan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.