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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 analysis found Minnesota State University - Mankato to be the best value school for foreign languages and linguistics students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Minnesota State Mankato is a large public school located in the city of Mankato.

Minnesota State Mankato graduate students pay an average of $9,308 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Minnesota State Mankato also did well on our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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#2

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list. 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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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri State University - Springfield. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list. Missouri State is a very large public school located in the 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 join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Montclair State University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list. Montclair State is a very large public school located in the suburb of Montclair.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Montclair State are $13,519 a year.

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#5

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.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $17,698 per year.

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California State University - Long Beach came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. CSULB is a very large public school located in the large city of Long Beach.

CSULB graduate students pay an average of $17,784 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate foreign languages and linguistics programs. UWM is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Milwaukee.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UWM are $25,651 a 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 small suburb of Williamsburg, William & Mary is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

William & Mary graduate students pay an average of $34,978 in tuition and fees each year.

William & Mary also claimed a spot on our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

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Arizona State University - Tempe ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools list. ASU - Tempe is a very large public school located in the city of Tempe.

ASU - Tempe graduate students pay an average of $24,432 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate foreign languages and linguistics programs. 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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New England
Rocky Mountains
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Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

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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