2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the New England Region

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East Asian Languages is the 188th most popular major in the country with 2,293 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, East Asian languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,485 and had an average of $22,162 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 161 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,627 and $22,069 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in East Asian languages. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in East Asian languages.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Languages in the New England Region

1

Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont

#25 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middlebury College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the New England Region list. Middlebury is located in Middlebury, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s East Asian degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Middlebury East Asian Languages Report

2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the New England Region. UMass Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 6 masters’s East Asian degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for East Asian Languages

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.

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