2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Studies in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 564 people earned their degree in east asian studies, making the major the 535th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 60 east asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 east asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in east asian studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in east asian studies.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Studies in the Southwest Region

1

Austin College
Sherman, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. Austin College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sherman, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about East Asian Studies at Austin College

2

Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s east asian studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on East Asian Studies at Trinity University

3

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 40 degrees to qualified bachelors’s east asian studies students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on East Asian Studies at University of Arizona

4

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s east asian studies degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about East Asian Studies at UNM

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.