A degree in modern languages is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #234 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for modern languages students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 95 degrees in modern languages to qualified students.
Your choice of modern languages school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for modern languages schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Modern Languages Schools in Missouri list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the modern languages degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat University of Missouri - Columbia if you want to pursue a degree in modern languages. Located in the medium-sized city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #131 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were about 29 modern languages students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Missouri State University - Springfield if you wish to pursue a degree in modern languages. Missouri State is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Springfield. A Best Colleges rank of #575 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Missouri State is a great university overall.
There were about 24 modern languages students who graduated with this degree at Missouri State in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in modern languages needs to check out University of Missouri - Kansas City. Located in the city of Kansas City, UMKC is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 14th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 16 modern languages students who graduated with this degree at UMKC in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in modern languages has to look into University of Missouri - St Louis. Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, UMSL is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 11th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 8 modern languages students who graduated with this degree at UMSL in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
Your choice of modern languages school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for modern languages schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
