Linguistics at University of Arizona

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

University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and approximately 45,601 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.

University of Arizona Linguistics Degrees Available

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

University of Arizona Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at University of Arizona 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 6 students who received their doctoral degrees in linguistics, making the school the #11 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Linguistics Student Demographics at University of Arizona

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

University of Arizona Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at University of Arizona since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 University of Arizona with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	12
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

University of Arizona Linguistics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of linguistics master's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 33% men graduate in linguistics each year. University of Arizona does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 7% more men than average.

In the linguistics master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 40% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

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

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

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 AZ, the home state for University of Arizona.

Occupation	Jobs in AZ	Average Salary in AZ
Interpreters and Translators	2,940	$46,100
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	440	$69,820

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 Msr69er under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.