Linguistics at University of California - Berkeley

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

UC Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California and has a total student population of 42,327.

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

UC Berkeley Linguistics Degrees Available

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

UC Berkeley Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at UC Berkeley 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 UC Berkeley

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

UC Berkeley Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 48% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 52% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at UC Berkeley since its program graduates 15% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% 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 California - Berkeley with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	22
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	16
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

UC Berkeley Linguistics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 17% of linguistics master's degrees went to men and 83% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - Berkeley 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	4
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 University of California - Berkeley.

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 LAgirl5252 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.