Linguistics at Western Washington University

Every linguistics school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the linguistics program at Western Washington University stacks up to those at other schools.

WWU is located in Bellingham, Washington and has a total student population of 15,197.

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

WWU Linguistics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics

WWU Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at WWU 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 WWU

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

WWU Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

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 WWU since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in linguistics at WWU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	21
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Modern Languages

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 WA, the home state for Western Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Interpreters and Translators	880	$48,560
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	670	$67,950

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 Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.