You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bates College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on East Asian Major in Maine. Lewiston, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s East Asian degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.