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2022 Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
40 Degrees Awarded
$25,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor's in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

East Asian Languages is the 184th most popular major in the country with 2,219 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, East Asian languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,569 and had an average of $20,789 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 46 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in East Asian languages. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent East Asian languages programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the East Asian languages program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Languages in Illinois (With Aid)

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Evanston, Illinois, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s East Asian degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northwestern, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Northwestern University is $24,664 for illinois bachelor’s degree east asian students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about East Asian Languages at Northwestern

#2

North Central College

Naperville, Illinois
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Central College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid. North Central is a small school located in Naperville, Illinois that handed out 16 bachelors’s East Asian degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at North Central, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend North Central is $24,786 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree East Asian students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at North Central

#3

Wheaton College Illinois

Wheaton, Illinois
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wheaton College Illinois. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid. Wheaton College Illinois is located in Wheaton, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s East Asian degrees to qualified students.

Wheaton College Illinois also took the #3 spot in our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Wheaton College Illinois is $25,358 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree East Asian students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at Wheaton College Illinois

#4

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value East Asian Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Chicago landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Chicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UChicago also made our “Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $27,315 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree East Asian students with aid per year to attend UChicago.

With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at UChicago

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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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