Linguistics & Comparative Literature at University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and has a total student population of 22,563. In 2021, 19 comparative literature majors received their bachelor's degree from UAB.

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.

UAB Linguistics & Comparative Literature Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature

UAB Linguistics & Comparative Literature Rankings

The comparative literature major at UAB 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 UAB

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

UAB Linguistics & Comparative Literature Bachelor’s Program

Of the 19 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Linguistics & Comparative Literature from UAB in 2020-2021, 32% were men and 68% were women. The typical comparative literature bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% men. So male students are more repesented at UAB since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in comparative literature at UAB are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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 University of Alabama at Birmingham with a bachelor's in comparative literature.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UAB also has a doctoral program available in comparative literature. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 AL, the home state for University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
High School Teachers	16,270	$51,180
English Language and Literature Professors	930	$58,690
Interpreters and Translators	250	$40,510
Social Scientists	220	$84,890
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	140	$58,720

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 Lee Adlaf under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.