Best Value / By Major

Best Value Colleges for Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

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

3
Schools Ranked
$33,743
Avg. Earnings
12.2 yrs
Best Payback
40
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 Major Earnings Payback
1
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT · Private
$39,153 12.2 yrs
2
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI · Public
$32,391 N/A
3
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA · Public
$29,685 N/A

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.