Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Linguistics & Comparative Literature School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of linguistics & comparative literature for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on linguistics & comparative literature students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other linguistics & comparative literature students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for linguistics & comparative literature to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized linguistics & comparative literature related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for linguistics & comparative literature students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Sad to say, we do not have enough info to produce a ranking of the quality schools for linguistics & comparative literature in the Plains States Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer linguistics & comparative literature and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Linguistics & Comparative Literature rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Linguistics & Comparative Literature ranking.

Best Linguistics & Comparative Literature Colleges by State

Explore the best linguistics & comparative literature colleges for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	122	11
Minnesota	120	1
Iowa	110	3
Kansas	97	5
Nebraska	70	2

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Linguistics & Comparative Literature Related Rankings by Major

One of 18 majors within the Foreign Languages & Linguistics area of study, Linguistics & Comparative Literature has other similar majors worth exploring.

Comparative Literature Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Modern Languages	8
Linguistics	6
Comparative Literature	2
Other Linguistic, Comparative, & Related Language Studies & Services	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Comparative Literature

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Romance Languages	12
East Asian Languages	2
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	2
Classical Languages & Literature	2
Germanic Languages	1

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Pandit Rahul Sanskrutayan, Banshidhar Mohanty. More about our data sources and methodologies.