2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for South Asian Languages

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value South Asian Schools for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 10 people earned their degree in South Asian languages, making the major the 357th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, South Asian languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 South Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality South Asian languages programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the South Asian languages program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value South Asian Schools for a Doctorate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value South Asian Schools for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value South Asian Schools for a Doctorate.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for South Asian Languages

#1

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$61,548 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value South Asian Schools for a Doctorate. University of Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 6 doctorate’s South Asian degrees in 2019-2020.

UChicago also made our “Best South Asian Languages Doctor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Chicago are $61,548, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Chicago South Asian Languages Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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