East Asian Languages is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #144 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of east asian languages. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 119 bachelor's degrees in east asian languages during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great East Asian Languages School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The east asian bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality east asian program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on east asian languages students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of east asian languages students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt east asian languages students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized east asian languages related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for east asian languages students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best East Asian Languages Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study East Asian Languages in the Plains States Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in east asian languages.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Bachelor's in East Asian
It's hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in east asian languages. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public university located in the city of Minneapolis.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the east asian program make an average of $29,219 for their early career.
St Olaf College is a good decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in east asian languages. Located in the distant town of Northfield, St. Olaf is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the east asian program report average early career earnings of $27,328.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).