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2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$22,045 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, foreign languages and linguistics was ranked #26 in the country. In fact 4,163 degrees and certificates were handed out 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, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region 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.

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.

2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Colleges.

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

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

Our analysis found Texas Tech University to be the best value school for foreign languages and linguistics students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southwest Region . Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.

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

Texas Tech excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list.

Read full report on Foreign Languages & Linguistics at Texas Tech University

Out of the 3 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the # 2 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Tempe.

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

Full Foreign Languages & Linguistics at Arizona State University - Tempe Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Arlington. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Foreign Languages & Linguistics Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. UT Arlington is a fairly large public school located in the city of Arlington.

UT Arlington graduate students pay an average of $24,005 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Foreign Languages & Linguistics at The University of Texas at Arlington

Best Foreign Languages & Linguistics Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 84
Texas 229
Oklahoma 4
New Mexico 74

Foreign Languages & Linguistics Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Linguistics & Comparative Literature 1,748
Romance Languages 1,304
Classical Languages & Literature 303
East Asian Languages 209
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages 160
Germanic Languages 149
American Sign Language 115
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages 74
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) 51
South Asian Languages 22
Second Language Learning 19
Celtic Language & Literature 3
African Languages 3
Greek Language & Literature 1

Related Major Annual Graduates
Visual & Performing Arts 18,379
Theology & Religious Vocations 17,287
English Language & Literature 9,566
Philosophy & Religious Studies 3,136
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities 2,680

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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