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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Southwest region, there were 143 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,738 and $21,565 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in East Asian languages. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in East Asian languages.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree east asian students.

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

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s East Asian students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at Arizona State University - Tempe

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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on East Asian Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 82 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on East Asian Languages at The University of Texas at Austin

• 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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