Linguistics at Tulane University of Louisiana

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

Tulane is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and approximately 13,927 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.

Tulane Linguistics Degrees Available

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

Tulane Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at Tulane 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 1 student who received their doctoral degrees in linguistics, making the school the #46 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Linguistics Student Demographics at Tulane

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

Tulane 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 Tulane since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% 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 Tulane University of Louisiana with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Tulane Linguistics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of linguistics master's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 33% men graduate in linguistics each year. Tulane does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 17% more men than average.

Of the students who received a linguistics master's degree from Tulane, 100% 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 Tulane University of Louisiana with a master's in linguistics.

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

Related Majors

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 LA, the home state for Tulane University of Louisiana.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	150	$62,190
Interpreters and Translators	90	$40,440

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 bsulldiesel under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.