2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for South Asian Studies in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 33 people earned their degree in South Asian studies, making the major the 1213th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 13 South Asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 South Asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in South Asian studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their South Asian studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree south asian studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for South Asian Studies in the Great Lakes Region

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University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s South Asian studies degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about South Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana

#10 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Bloomington, Indiana, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s South Asian studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.

Full IU Bloomington South Asian Studies Report

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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.