French Language and Literature

A program that focuses on the French language and related dialects and creoles. Includes instruction in philology; Metropolitan French; Canadian French; African and Caribbean Creoles; dialects; and applications in business, science/technology, and other settings.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 402 institutions across the United States, with a total of 6638 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

199

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

1,650

degrees awarded

Master's Degrees

185

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

degrees awarded

Other Awards

4,487

awards given

Top Schools for French Language and Literature

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	246
2	New York University New York, NY	96
3	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	93
4	Boise State University Boise, ID	87
5	Middlebury College Middlebury, VT	87
6	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	84
7	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	84
8	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	75
9	Georgia State University Atlanta, GA	74
10	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	66
11	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	66
12	University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND	64
13	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	63
14	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	63
15	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	60
16	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	57
17	Yale University New Haven, CT	57
18	Pasadena City College Pasadena, CA	52
19	Weber State University Ogden, UT	51
20	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	51
21	Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY	48
22	William & Mary Williamsburg, VA	48
23	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	48
24	University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI	48
25	Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA	45
26	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	45
27	Williams College Williamstown, MA	45
28	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	45
29	University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI	45
30	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	45
31	MiraCosta College Oceanside, CA	44
32	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	42
33	Amherst College Amherst, MA	42
34	St Olaf College Northfield, MN	42
35	Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX	39
36	Grinnell College Grinnell, IA	39
37	University of Nevada-Reno Reno, NV	39
38	University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC	39
39	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	36
40	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	36
41	Rowan University Glassboro, NJ	36
42	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	36
43	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	36
44	Western Washington University Bellingham, WA	36
45	Smith College Northampton, MA	33
46	University of Oregon Eugene, OR	33
47	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	33
48	University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR	33
49	University of Georgia Athens, GA	33
50	Bates College Lewiston, ME	33
51	Duke University Durham, NC	33
52	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	33
53	Tufts University Medford, MA	33
54	College of Charleston Charleston, SC	33
55	Missouri State University-Springfield Springfield, MO	32
56	Xavier University Cincinnati, OH	30
57	Oberlin College Oberlin, OH	30
58	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI	30
59	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	30
60	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	30
61	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	30
62	Butler University Indianapolis, IN	30
63	University of North Texas Denton, TX	30
64	Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Ponce Ponce, PR	30
65	Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA	30
66	University of Mount Union Alliance, OH	30
67	Chabot College Hayward, CA	28
68	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	27
69	Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA	27
70	Oregon State University Corvallis, OR	27
71	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	27
72	Hamilton College Clinton, NY	27
73	Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA	27
74	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	27
75	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	27
76	Pomona College Claremont, CA	27
77	Colgate University Hamilton, NY	27
78	CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, NY	27
79	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	27
80	CUNY Hunter College New York, NY	27
81	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	27
82	Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, MI	27
83	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	27
84	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	27
85	Dickinson College Carlisle, PA	24
86	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	24
87	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	24
88	Ball State University Muncie, IN	24
89	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	24
90	Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI	24
91	Montclair State University Montclair, NJ	24
92	Connecticut College New London, CT	24
93	Villanova University Villanova, PA	24
94	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	21
95	Portland State University Portland, OR	21
96	Centre College Danville, KY	21
97	University of San Diego San Diego, CA	21
98	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	21
99	DePaul University Chicago, IL	21
100	University of Dayton Dayton, OH	21