2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major in Illinois

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major in Illinois” 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 Illinois, there were 4 Japanese studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 Japanese studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Japanese studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Japanese studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree japanese studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Japanese Studies in Illinois

1

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s Japanese studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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%.

Read more about Japanese Studies at DePaul University

2

Illinois College
Jacksonville, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major in Illinois list. Illinois College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jacksonville, Illinois. It awarded 0 bachelors’s Japanese studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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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

• *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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.