Out of the 1 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on East Asian Studies Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Brown University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 13 ’s East Asian studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.