Linguistics at Swarthmore College

0% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

Swarthmore is located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and approximately 1,437 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.

Swarthmore Linguistics Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

Swarthmore Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at Swarthmore 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 Swarthmore

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

Swarthmore Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

29% Women

For the most recent academic year available, 71% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 29% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Swarthmore since its program graduates 38% more men than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Swarthmore 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 Swarthmore College with a bachelor's in linguistics.

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

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 PA, the home state for Swarthmore College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	1,590	$78,240
Interpreters and Translators	750	$50,100

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
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