Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General

Liberal Arts • Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

What is it about?

A general program that focuses on the literary culture of the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the Greek and Latin languages and literatures and their development prior to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Numbers at a glance

240th

Popular nationwide

220

Search Rank on O's List

196

Colleges offer it

799

Graduates (2018-19)

Men: 329
Women: 470

As a Minor

Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General is relatively popular as a minor/second major with 283 people graduating with it as a minor in academic year 2018-19.

Trends

Graduates

Popularity Rank

Colleges

Number of Colleges by Type

Median Graduating Class by College Type

Number of Colleges by Size

Top 10 Public by Number of Graduates

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	18
University of Virginia-Main Campus	15
University of Colorado Boulder	13
University of Florida	13
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	13
The University of Texas at Austin	12
College of William and Mary	12
University of California-Santa Barbara	11
College of Charleston	11
University of Arizona	10

Average public university graduating class: 5 students.

Top 10 Private by Number of Graduates

Brown University	14
Harvard University	11
Princeton University	11
College of the Holy Cross	10
Columbia University in the City of New York	10
Kenyon College	10
University of Dallas	9
Yale University	7
Georgetown University	7
University of Chicago	7

Average private university graduating class: 3 students.

O's Insights on Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General

Major has been decreasing in popularity over the last 5 years after being stable prior to that.
47% of graduates come from public universities.