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

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In 2020-2021, 2,293 people earned their degree in East Asian languages, making the major the 188th most popular in the United States. 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 132 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in East Asian languages. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their East Asian languages program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

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

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University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the #1 spot on the list. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s East Asian degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Colorado Boulder East Asian Languages Report

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Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#3 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This large school is located in Provo, Utah, and it awarded 33 masters’s East Asian degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at Brigham Young University - Provo

• 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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