2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Southeast Asian Studies in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Southeast Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Southeast Asian Studies is the 1357th most popular major in the country with 14 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 11 Southeast Asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 Southeast Asian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Southeast Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in Southeast Asian studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful Southeast Asian studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Southeast Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Southeast Asian Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1

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 Most Well Attended Southeast Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. UW - Madison is a large school located in Madison, Wisconsin that handed out 2 masters’s Southeast Asian studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full UW - Madison Southeast Asian Studies Report

2

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#4 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Southeast Asian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and it awarded 1 masters’s Southeast Asian studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

Full U-M Southeast Asian Studies Report

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Southeast Asian Studies

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.