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2023 Best Value Colleges for Japanese Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges

27 Degrees Awarded

$31,200 Avg Net Price*

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Japanese Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Japanese Studies is the 1058th most popular major in the country with 73 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 27 Japanese studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent Japanese studies 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 Japanese studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Japanese Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region japanese studies students.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Japanese Studies in the Great Lakes Region

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$31,174 Average Net Price

$49,846 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Japanese Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s Japanese studies degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

DePaul also made our “Best Japanese Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for DePaul University is $31,174 for Great Lakes Region Japanese Studies students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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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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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