Bachelor's · Charleston, South Carolina
Is Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at College of Charleston worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 5.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $47,986
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $60,282
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $15,875
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $77k (likely $77k – $82k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $24k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in SC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.1 years (likely 3.8–7.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$13k (likely −$104k – $86k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $291k (likely $102k – $527k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 65%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Students heading toward languages & cultures majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Spanish Language and Culture (or French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin)
- AP World History: Modern
- AP Human Geography
IB Higher Level
- Language B HL
- History HL or Geography HL
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Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at other schools in South Carolina
- Clemson University$70,584
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- Furman University$60,280
- University of South Carolina-Columbia$25,592