2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major

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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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 South Asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in South Asian languages. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in South Asian languages.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for South Asian Languages

1

Maharishi International University
Fairfield, Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maharishi International University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major. This small school is located in Fairfield, Iowa, and it awarded 17 masters’s South Asian degrees in 2020-2021.

Full MIU South Asian Languages Report

2

University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#7 overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major list. University of Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 2 masters’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 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on South Asian Languages at University of Chicago

3

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#12 overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major list. Harvard is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It awarded 0 masters’s South Asian degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.

Read full report on South Asian Languages at Harvard

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.