East Asian Studies

Liberal Arts • Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, And Group Studies

What is it about?

A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of one or more of the peoples of East Asia, defined as including China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, related borderlands and island groups, and including the study of the East Asian diasporas overseas.

Numbers at a glance

440th
Popular nationwide
185
Search Rank on O's List
59
Colleges offer it
307
Graduates (2018-19)
Men
124
Women
183
As a Minor

East Asian Studies is relatively popular as a minor/second major with 147 people graduating with it as a minor in academic year 2018-19.

Trends

Graduates
Popularity Rank

Colleges

Number of Colleges by Type
Median Graduating Class by College Type
Number of Colleges by Size
Top 10 Public by Number of Graduates
University of Arizona23
Rutgers University-New Brunswick18
Miami University-Oxford16
Western Washington University15
University of California-Irvine14
Wayne State University10
CUNY Queens College10
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign8
California State University-Long Beach6
University of New Mexico-Main Campus5
Average public university graduating class: 9 students.
Top 10 Private by Number of Graduates
Columbia University in the City of New York22
Oberlin College11
New York University10
Wesleyan University7
Harvard University7
Middlebury College7
Brown University7
Wittenberg University7
Kalamazoo College6
Stanford University5
Average private university graduating class: 4 students.

O's Insights on East Asian Studies

  • Major has been stable in popularity over the last 5 years after decreasing prior to that.
  • 46% of graduates come from public universities.

Related Majors

Major Graduates Colleges
American/United States Studies/Civilization 970 123
Asian Studies/Civilization 680 107
Area Studies, Other 546 34
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