by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Texas, there were 119 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $18,054 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 East Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in East Asian languages. To top this list, a school must have a successful East Asian languages program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s list. University of North Texas is a public institution located in Denton, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s East Asian degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 more about East Asian Languages at The University of Texas at Austin
Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity University landed the #3 spot on the list. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s East Asian degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s East Asian students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended East Asian Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s East Asian degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Southern Methodist University East Asian Languages Report
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