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2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

25 Colleges
$30,264 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,019 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master's Degree 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.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 25 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which master's degree 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for foreign languages and linguistics majors pursuing a master's degree.

Top 10 Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master's Degree Schools

Our analysis found Illinois State University to be the best value school for foreign languages and linguistics students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Great Lakes Region . Illinois State is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized suburb of Normal.

Illinois State graduate students pay an average of $11,773 in tuition and fees each year.

Illinois State excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Illinois University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. NIU is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Dekalb.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at NIU are $11,390 a year.

Full Foreign Languages & Linguistics at Northern Illinois University Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Valley State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the suburb of Allendale, GVSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

GVSU graduate students pay an average of $17,904 in tuition and fees each year.

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#4

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Marquette is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Milwaukee.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Marquette are $21,960 per year.

Marquette also claimed a spot on our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Wisconsin - Madison helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value foreign languages and linguistics schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UW - Madison are $25,501 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UW - Madison also is in the top 5% of our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

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Loyola University Chicago ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Chicago, Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Loyola Chicago are $19,894 per year.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree foreign languages and linguistics programs. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UIUC are $30,862 a year.

UIUC also took the #5 spot in our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

Full Foreign Languages & Linguistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for foreign languages and linguistics students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the city of Milwaukee, UWM is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UWM are $25,651 per year.

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Northeastern Illinois University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Northeastern Illinois University is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Northeastern Illinois University are $17,375 a year.

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#10

DePaul University

Chicago, IL

DePaul University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree foreign languages and linguistics programs. Located in the large city of Chicago, DePaul is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at DePaul are $18,341 per year.

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Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Colleges by State

Explore the best foreign languages and linguistics schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 878
Michigan 1,004
Ohio 992
Illinois 954
Wisconsin 787

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
Celtic Language & Literature 4
African Languages 4
Iranian & Persian Languages 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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