2025 Best East Asian Languages Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best East Asian Languages Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 76 master's degrees in east asian languages to qualified students.

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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:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to east asian languages students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of east asian languages students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for east asian languages to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• 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 master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study East Asian Languages in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in East Asian

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Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

34 Annual Graduates

Columbia University in the City of New York is a great option for students pursuing a master's degree in east asian languages. Located in the large 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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Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

12 Annual Graduates

Every 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 small city of New Brunswick.More information about a master’s in east asian languages from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Best East Asian Languages Colleges by State

Explore the best east asian languages schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	28
Pennsylvania	248	17
New Jersey	188	12
District of Columbia	154	2
Delaware	109	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to East Asian

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	64
Chinese Language & Literature	12

Majors Similar to East Asian

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	222
Romance Languages	182
Classical Languages & Literature	62
American Sign Language	49
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	48
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	29
Germanic Languages	13
Second Language Learning	7
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other)	2

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Betoseha. More about our data sources and methodologies.