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2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

28 Colleges
$28,184 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate School for You

Foreign Languages & Linguistics is the #24 most popular major in the country with 33,333 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 28 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for foreign languages and linguistics students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top 10 Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Minnesota State University - Mankato the best value school in the United States for foreign languages and linguistics students working on their graduate certificate. Minnesota State Mankato is a fairly large public school located in the city of Mankato.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Minnesota State Mankato are $9,308 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Minnesota State Mankato is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list.

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#2

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Liberty University is a great value for foreign languages and linguistics students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Liberty University are $8,360 per year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Missouri State University - Springfield helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value foreign languages and linguistics schools in the United States. Missouri State is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Springfield.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Missouri State are $12,618 per year.

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#4

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montclair State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list. Montclair State is a very large public school located in the suburb of Montclair.

Montclair State graduate students pay an average of $13,519 in tuition and fees each year.

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Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Texas Tech University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value foreign languages and linguistics schools in the United States. Texas Tech is a very large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

Texas Tech graduate students pay an average of $17,698 in tuition and fees each year.

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California State University - Long Beach did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for foreign languages and linguistics students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. CSULB is a fairly large public school located in the city of Long Beach.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at CSULB are $17,784 a year.

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. UWM is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Milwaukee.

UWM graduate students pay an average of $25,651 in tuition and fees each year.

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William & Mary

Williamsburg, VA

William & Mary did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for foreign languages and linguistics students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the suburb of Williamsburg, William & Mary is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at William & Mary are $34,978 per year.

William & Mary excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list.

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Arizona State University - Tempe came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. ASU - Tempe is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Tempe.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at ASU - Tempe are $24,432 per year.

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With a ranking of #10, University of North Carolina at Charlotte did quite well on this year’s best value schools for foreign languages and linguistics students working on their graduate certificate. UNC Charlotte is a very large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNC Charlotte are $21,147 per year.

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Foreign Languages & Linguistics by Region

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Southwest
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Foreign Languages & Linguistics Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Romance Languages 15,009
Linguistics & Comparative Literature 8,539
American Sign Language 2,724
East Asian Languages 2,293
Classical Languages & Literature 1,428
Germanic Languages 1,425
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages 607
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages 607
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) 500
Second Language Learning 108
Southeast Asian & Pacific Languages 38
South Asian Languages 24
Native American Languages 16
African Languages 4
Iranian & Persian Languages 4
Celtic Language & Literature 4
Greek Language & Literature 3

Majors Similar to Foreign Languages & Linguistics

Related Major Annual Graduates
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities 556,813
Visual & Performing Arts 149,215
English Language & Literature 54,635
Theology & Religious Vocations 27,459
Philosophy & Religious Studies 19,993

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to John Stephen Dwyer.

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