2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for South Asian Languages
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
South Asian Languages is the 367th most popular major in the country with 24 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, South Asian languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 South Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in South Asian languages. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in South Asian languages.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major”.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for South Asian Languages
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major list. This fairly large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s South Asian degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about South Asian Languages at University of Chicago
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s South Asian students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about South Asian Languages at Harvard
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s South Asian students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.
Full UW Seattle South Asian Languages Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major. Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s South Asian degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about South Asian Languages at Brown
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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
- *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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