2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 627 people earned their degree in East Asian studies, making the major the 535th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 140 East Asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 East Asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in East Asian studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in East Asian studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Studies in the New England Region

1

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the New England Region. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s East Asian studies degrees to 24 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.

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2

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in New England

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Yale University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s East Asian studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on East Asian Studies at Yale University

3

University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Bridgeport landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s East Asian studies students in 2020-2021.

Read more about East Asian Studies at UBridgeport

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Studies

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.

Credits

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