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Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools in California

2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$26,108 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

Foreign Languages & Linguistics is the #22 most popular major in California with 5,369 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for foreign languages and linguistics students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Foreign Languages & Linguistics

Our analysis found California State University - Long Beach to be the best value school for foreign languages and linguistics students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in California. CSULB is a very large public school located in the large city of Long Beach.

CSULB graduate students pay an average of $8,280 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at California State University - San Bernardino helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value foreign languages and linguistics schools in California. Located in the medium-sized city of San Bernardino, CSUSB is a public school with a fairly large student population.

CSUSB graduate students pay an average of $8,647 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Southern California is a great value for foreign languages and linguistics students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at USC are $61,396 a year.

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Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 603
Oregon 579
Hawaii 198
Nevada 130
Alaska 34

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

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 3 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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