2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 73 people earned their degree in Japanese studies, making the major the 1058th most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 Japanese studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Japanese studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in Japanese studies.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Japanese Studies

1

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

Top 5% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large public school situated in Seattle, Washington. It awarded 3 masters’s Japanese studies degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Japanese Studies at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

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DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Top 15% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Japanese Studies Major list. DePaul is a large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 4 masters’s Japanese studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Japanese Studies at DePaul University

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.