Linguistics at University of Maryland - College Park

46% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and has a total student population of 40,709.

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

UMCP Linguistics Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

UMCP Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at UMCP 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 UMCP

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

UMCP Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

65% Women

46% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 35% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 65% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at UMCP since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 Maryland - College Park with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	8
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland - College Park.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Interpreters and Translators	1,120	$70,530
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	250	$78,960

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
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