Bachelor's degree · English language and literature · CIP 23.01
English Language and Literature, General: earnings and debt by college
The College Scorecard lists 1,176 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in English Language and Literature, General, together awarding 26,306 of these degrees in the most recent year. At the median institution, graduates who received federal aid earn $37,118 one year after finishing and $51,334 five years after finishing (two separate graduating classes). The median institution's graduates leave with $21,775 in federal student loans.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.
Compare English Language and Literature, General programs on one chart
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Each dot is one institution's program; branch campuses share their institution's figures and appear as one dot. Dashed lines mark the median for all colleges. Showing 398 of 1,129; programs missing either value are left out (the Scorecard withholds figures for small programs).
Colleges with a bachelor's in English Language and Literature, General
| University of Central Florida Orlando · Public | FL | 316 | $36,229 | $49,324 | $21,370 |
| Florida State University Tallahassee · Public | FL | 288 | $34,821 | $54,499 | $17,684 |
| California State University-Long Beach Long Beach · Public | CA | 270 | $35,189 | $51,817 | $13,000 |
| Arizona State University Digital Immersion Scottsdale · Public | AZ | 258 | $38,384 | $50,733 | $22,000 |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles · Public | CA | 243 | $35,769 | $62,178 | $13,000 |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley · Public | CA | 223 | $37,602 | $60,604 | $13,000 |
| Southern New Hampshire University Manchester · Private nonprofit | NH | 214 | $36,134 | $52,346 | $27,448 |
| Florida International University Miami · Public | FL | 184 | $34,599 | $55,185 | $18,560 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill · Public | NC | 176 | $37,505 | $54,169 | $9,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin · Public | TX | 160 | $39,242 | $56,185 | $17,160 |
| University of Florida Gainesville · Public | FL | 157 | $36,108 | $49,559 | $13,133 |
| University of California-Irvine Irvine · Public | CA | 149 | $30,536 | $58,564 | $11,971 |
| The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg · Public | TX | 147 | $33,137 | $51,230 | $13,559 |
| California State University-Northridge Northridge · Public | CA | 145 | $32,774 | $52,241 | $16,732 |
| California State University-Fullerton Fullerton · Public | CA | 144 | $31,757 | $53,744 | $15,992 |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus · Public | OH | 144 | $34,634 | $48,514 | $19,225 |
| University of California-Davis Davis · Public | CA | 143 | $37,793 | $61,735 | $13,500 |
| University of North Texas Denton · Public | TX | 143 | $37,268 | $48,555 | $20,000 |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe · Public | AZ | 139 | $38,384 | $50,733 | $22,000 |
| University of South Florida Tampa · Public | FL | 138 | $32,712 | $49,733 | $17,539 |
| CUNY Hunter College New York · Public | NY | 137 | $37,131 | $58,849 | $11,000 |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville · Public | VA | 133 | $46,868 | $61,214 | $16,070 |
| California State University-Sacramento Sacramento · Public | CA | 132 | $35,864 | $54,369 | $14,569 |
| Texas State University San Marcos · Public | TX | 132 | $38,902 | $49,044 | $20,500 |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst · Public | MA | 131 | $35,265 | $59,390 | $23,250 |
| California State University-San Bernardino San Bernardino · Public | CA | 127 | $28,271 | $59,507 | $12,000 |
| University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara · Public | CA | 127 | $35,102 | $63,789 | $12,000 |
| San Diego State University San Diego · Public | CA | 126 | $31,796 | $54,020 | $15,000 |
| Fordham University Bronx · Private nonprofit | NY | 116 | $45,777 | $69,821 | $25,625 |
| University of Maryland-College Park College Park · Public | MD | 114 | $41,320 | $64,591 | $15,153 |
| University of Connecticut Storrs · Public | CT | 113 | $29,962 | $57,938 | $19,500 |
| University of Houston Houston · Public | TX | 111 | $38,243 | $56,931 | $21,500 |
| Texas A&M University-College Station College Station · Public | TX | 110 | $37,289 | $57,561 | $18,622 |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York · Private nonprofit | NY | 108 | $50,370 | $67,078 | $19,437 |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick · Public | NJ | 106 | $35,719 | $58,193 | $20,500 |
| University of California-Riverside Riverside · Public | CA | 106 | $28,456 | $54,841 | $15,000 |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte · Public | NC | 106 | $38,273 | $47,418 | $19,500 |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle · Public | WA | 106 | $41,605 | $60,640 | $12,734 |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh · Public | NC | 104 | $34,915 | $53,239 | $17,537 |
| University of Georgia Athens · Public | GA | 100 | $37,177 | $54,993 | $17,750 |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis · Public | MN | 100 | $36,487 | $53,984 | $20,500 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison · Public | WI | 100 | $37,625 | $59,483 | $17,374 |
| University of Colorado Boulder Boulder · Public | CO | 99 | $34,220 | $58,653 | $16,750 |
| Brigham Young University Provo · Private nonprofit | UT | 97 | $38,417 | $54,145 | $10,482 |
| California State University-Los Angeles Los Angeles · Public | CA | 97 | $27,980 | $50,473 | $18,518 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign · Public | IL | 97 | $45,810 | $61,184 | $16,250 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor · Public | MI | 97 | $36,076 | $64,179 | $18,750 |
| University of Phoenix-Arizona Phoenix · Private for-profit | AZ | 97 | $40,732 | $46,410 | $42,417 |
| CUNY Queens College Queens · Public | NY | 96 | $35,994 | $54,981 | $13,135 |
| Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro · Public | TN | 96 | $35,908 | $47,558 | $20,000 |
Quick facts: English Language and Literature, General
- How many colleges offer a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature, General?
- The College Scorecard lists 1,176 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in English Language and Literature, General.
- How much do English Language and Literature, General graduates earn?
- Across institutions, the median of graduates' median earnings is $37,118 one year after graduation (434 institutions reporting) and $51,334 five years after graduation (548 institutions reporting). These figures cover graduates who received federal aid and are working and not enrolled in school. Branch campuses share their institution's figures, so each institution counts once.
- Where do English Language and Literature, General graduates earn the most five years after graduation?
- By reported median earnings five years after graduation: Yale University ($94,178), Wake Forest University ($87,998), Stanford University ($87,626), Colgate University ($79,744), and Seattle University ($79,677).
- How much student debt do English Language and Literature, General graduates have?
- The median institution's English Language and Literature, General graduates leave with $21,775 in federal student loans (422 institutions reporting). Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Which colleges award the most English Language and Literature, General degrees?
- By bachelor's degrees awarded in the most recent year: University of Central Florida (316), Florida State University (288), California State University-Long Beach (270), Arizona State University Digital Immersion (258), and University of California-Los Angeles (243).
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How these numbers work
Figures cover bachelor's degree programs in English Language and Literature, General (CIP code 23.01), as reported in the College Scorecard. Earnings are medians for graduates who received federal aid, measured one and five years after they finished, among those working and not enrolled in school; the one-year and five-year figures describe different graduating classes. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation. The Scorecard withholds figures for programs with few graduates, so many smaller programs show n/a. Summary figures are medians across institutions: the Scorecard reports program earnings and debt for a whole institution, so branch campuses share one figure and count once. All figures are from the Scorecard's most recent field-of-study release. More on the data.