What Should I Major in to Become an Interpreters and Translator?
These college majors are closest related to this career (actual program names will vary from school to school).
- African Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Albanian Language and Literature
- American Indian/Native American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- American Sign Language (ASL)
- American Sign Language, Other
- Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature
- Applied Linguistics
- Arabic Language and Literature
- Australian/Oceanic/Pacific Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Baltic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Bengali Language and Literature
- Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian Languages and Literatures
- Bulgarian Language and Literature
- Burmese Language and Literature
- Catalan Language and Literature
- Celtic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Chinese Language and Literature
- Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Czech Language and Literature
- Danish Language and Literature
- Deaf Studies
- Dutch/Flemish Language and Literature
- East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Education/Teaching of Individuals with Hearing Impairments Including Deafness
- Filipino/Tagalog Language and Literature
- Foreign Languages and Literatures, General
- Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- French Language and Literature
- German Language and Literature
- Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Hebrew Language and Literature
- Hindi Language and Literature
- Hispanic and Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- Hungarian/Magyar Language and Literature
- Indonesian/Malay Languages and Literatures
- Iranian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Italian Language and Literature
- Japanese Language and Literature
- Khmer/Cambodian Language and Literature
- Korean Language and Literature
- Language Interpretation and Translation
- Lao Language and Literature
- Latin Language and Literature
- Linguistics of ASL and Other Sign Languages
- Linguistics
- Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Modern Greek Language and Literature
- Mongolian Language and Literature
- Norwegian Language and Literature
- Polish Language and Literature
- Portuguese Language and Literature
- Punjabi Language and Literature
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Romanian Language and Literature
- Russian Language and Literature
- Sanskrit and Classical Indian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Scandinavian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Sign Language Interpretation and Translation
- Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Slovak Language and Literature
- South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Southeast Asian and Australasian/Pacific Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Southeast Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
- Spanish Language and Literature
- Swedish Language and Literature
- Tamil Language and Literature
- Thai Language and Literature
- Tibetan Language and Literature
- Turkic, Uralic-Altaic, Caucasian, and Central Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
- Turkish Language and Literature
- Ukrainian Language and Literature
- Uralic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Urdu Language and Literature
- Vietnamese Language and Literature
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree usually needed for this career