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Best Value Colleges for Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Schools ranked by payback period — how quickly you recoup your investment through higher earnings.

6

Schools Ranked

$35,464

Avg. Earnings

3.1 yrs

Best Payback

37

Graduates

How we calculate value: Payback = (4 years of net price) / (major earnings - $35k baseline). A 2-year payback means you recoup your investment in 2 years through higher earnings vs. not attending college.

#	School	Net Price/yr	Major Earnings	Payback
1	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN · Private	$14,020	$53,358	3.1 yrs
2	Binghamton University Vestal, NY · Public	$21,423	$40,485	15.6 yrs
3	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD · Public	$17,360	$36,848	37.6 yrs
4	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX · Public	$16,134	$35,600	107.6 yrs
5	Brigham Young University Provo, UT · Private	$12,676	$26,353	N/A
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI · Public	$10,481	$20,140	N/A

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Payback uses earnings by major from the College Scorecard's field-of-study file, last updated June 2026, against net price from the June 2026 release. Scorecard publishes the two separately, so they are different vintages.