Linguistics at University of Hawaii at Hilo

What traits are you looking for in a linguistics school? To help you decide if University of Hawaii at Hilo is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's linguistics program.

UH Hilo is located in Hilo, Hawaii and approximately 3,165 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.

UH Hilo Linguistics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

UH Hilo Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at UH Hilo 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 UH Hilo

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

UH Hilo Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at UH Hilo since its program graduates 34% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 42% 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 Hawaii at Hilo with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	1
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 HI, the home state for University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Occupation	Jobs in HI	Average Salary in HI
Interpreters and Translators	90	$45,580

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 Vreed under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.