2023 Best Value Colleges for Other East Asian Languages 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 “Best Value Other East Asian Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other East Asian Languages is the 945th most popular major in the country with 113 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 29 other East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other East Asian Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other East Asian languages. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other East Asian languages programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other East Asian languages 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 Other East Asian Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other East Asian Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Other East Asian Languages in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$16,845 Average Net Price

$49,871 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Other East Asian Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Ohio State is a large public school situated in Columbus, Ohio. It awarded 12 ’s other East Asian languages degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ohio State, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Other East Asian Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $16,845 for great lakes region other east asian languages students per year to attend Ohio State.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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 Ohio State University - Main Campus Other East Asian Languages Report

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University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$28,517 Average Net Price

$62,519 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Other East Asian Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 16 degrees to qualified ’s other East Asian languages students in 2020-2021.

UChicago not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Other East Asian Languages Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UChicago is $28,517 for Great Lakes Region Other East Asian Languages students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full University of Chicago Other East Asian Languages 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

• *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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