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2022 Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
114 Degrees Awarded
$20,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

East Asian Languages is the 184th most popular major in the country with 2,219 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, East Asian languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,569 and had an average of $20,789 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 132 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $19,400 and $20,313 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 114 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in East Asian languages. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent East Asian languages programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the East Asian languages program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Languages in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a large public school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 43 bachelors’s East Asian degrees in 2019-2020.

UMN Twin Cities not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UMN Twin Cities is $17,740 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree East Asian students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full University of Minnesota - Twin Cities East Asian Languages Report

#2

Gustavus Adolphus College

Saint Peter, Minnesota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gustavus Adolphus College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Gustavus Adolphus is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Peter, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Gustavus Adolphus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $19,093 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree East Asian students with aid per year to attend Gustavus Adolphus.

The low 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at Gustavus Adolphus

#3

Concordia College at Moorhead

Moorhead, Minnesota
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Concordia College at Moorhead. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Moorhead, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s East Asian degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Concordia College Moorhead did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $23,029 for plains states region bachelor’s degree east asian students with aid per year to attend Concordia College at Moorhead.

The low student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at Concordia College Moorhead

#4

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Lawrence, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s East Asian degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

KU also made our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #6. It costs about $18,918 for plains states region bachelor’s degree east asian students with aid per year to attend KU.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about East Asian Languages at University of Kansas

#5

St Olaf College

Northfield, Minnesota
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, St Olaf College landed the #5 spot on the list. St. Olaf is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Northfield, Minnesota. It awarded 19 bachelors’s East Asian degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at St. Olaf, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $23,543 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree East Asian students with aid per year to attend St Olaf College.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full St. Olaf East Asian Languages Report

#6

Grinnell College

Grinnell, Iowa
#2 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, Grinnell College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. Grinnell, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s East Asian degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Grinnell, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Grinnell College is $22,486 for plains states region bachelor’s degree east asian students with aid.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at Grinnell College

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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