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2025 Best East Asian Languages Master's Degree Schools

3 Colleges in the United States
170 Master's Degrees
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in east asian languages. It is ranked #224 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best East Asian Languages Master's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 170 master's degrees in east asian languages to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great East Asian Languages School for Your Master's Degree

Best East Asian Languages Master's Degree Schools Your choice of east asian languages for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for east asian languages students working on their master's degree.

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When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best East Asian Languages Master's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study East Asian Languages in the United States

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in east asian languages.

Top Schools for a Master's in East Asian

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34 Annual Graduates

Columbia University in the City of New York is a good choice for individuals pursuing a master's degree in east asian languages. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in east asian languages from Columbia University in the City of New York

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12 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in east asian languages needs to take a look at Rutgers University - New Brunswick. Rutgers New Brunswick is a fairly large public university located in the city of New Brunswick.More information about a master’s in east asian languages from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

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10 Annual Graduates

University of Hawaii at Manoa is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in east asian languages. UH Manoa is a large public university located in the large city of Honolulu.More information about a master’s in east asian languages from University of Hawaii at Manoa

East Asian Languages by Region

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One of 18 majors within the Foreign Languages & Linguistics area of study, East Asian Languages has other similar majors worth exploring.

East Asian Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General 101
Chinese Language & Literature 39
Japanese Language & Literature 18
Other East Asian Languages 12

Majors Similar to East Asian

Related Major Annual Graduates
Linguistics & Comparative Literature 1,168
Romance Languages 969
Classical Languages & Literature 238
American Sign Language 106
Germanic Languages 105
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages 98
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages 65
Second Language Learning 14
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) 10
South Asian Languages 5

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