2023 Most Focused Colleges for East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on General East Asian Languages Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 308 people earned their degree in east asian languages, literatures, and linguistics, general, making the major the 738th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 58 east asian languages, literatures, and linguistics, general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on General East Asian Languages Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in east asian languages, literatures, and linguistics, general. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their east asian languages, literatures, and linguistics, general program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on General East Asian Languages Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region general east asian languages students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

$53,632 Average Early-Career Earnings

$28,887 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on General East Asian Languages Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 30 ’s degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General at The University of Texas at Austin

2

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

$49,374 Average Early-Career Earnings

$29,139 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on General East Asian Languages Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 28 ’s general east asian languages degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Arizona State University - Tempe East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General Report

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.