If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in east asian languages, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #144 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for east asian languages students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 180 bachelor's degrees in east asian languages to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great East Asian Languages School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The east asian bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality east asian program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on east asian languages students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of east asian languages students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt east asian languages students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized east asian languages related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for east asian languages students working on their bachelor's degree.
The east asian school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best East Asian Languages Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.
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University of Notre Dame is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in east asian languages. Notre Dame is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Notre Dame.
Those east asian languages students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Notre Dame earn $34,834 more than the typical east asian graduate.
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in east asian languages needs to look into Ohio State University - Main Campus. Located in the large city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the east asian program earn about $28,109 in the first couple years of working.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in east asian languages has to take a look at Michigan State University. Michigan State is a very large public university located in the city of East Lansing.
Soon after graduation, east asian bachelor's recipients generally earn about $27,856 in their early careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).