East Asian Studies

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.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 66 institutions across the United States, with a total of 1809 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

340

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

193

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,216

awards given

Top Schools for East Asian Studies

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	153
2	Georgetown University Washington, DC	138
3	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	132
4	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	111
5	Yale University New Haven, CT	84
6	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	72
7	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	66
8	New York University New York, NY	63
9	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	57
10	Stanford University Stanford, CA	51
11	Duke University Durham, NC	48
12	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	45
13	Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH	42
14	Oberlin College Oberlin, OH	36
15	Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA	36
16	University at Albany Albany, NY	33
17	Wesleyan University Middletown, CT	33
18	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	30
19	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	30
20	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	27
21	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	27
22	Brown University Providence, RI	24
23	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	24
24	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	24
25	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	24
26	Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI	24
27	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	21
28	Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, MI	18
29	Wayne State University Detroit, MI	18
30	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	18
31	Ohio University-Main Campus Athens, OH	16
32	University of North Georgia Dahlonega, GA	15
33	University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque, NM	15
34	CUNY Queens College Queens, NY	15
35	Denison University Granville, OH	15
36	Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA	15
37	Ursinus College Collegeville, PA	12
38	Emory University Atlanta, GA	12
39	Colby College Waterville, ME	12
40	Wellesley College Wellesley, MA	12
41	Occidental College Los Angeles, CA	12
42	Haverford College Haverford, PA	12
43	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	9
44	Connecticut College New London, CT	9
45	Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH	9
46	Austin College Sherman, TX	9
47	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	9
48	Western Washington University Bellingham, WA	9
49	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	9
50	Sinclair Community College Dayton, OH	8
51	Wittenberg University Springfield, OH	6
52	Lawrence University Appleton, WI	6
53	Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA	6
54	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	6
55	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	6
56	Rhodes College Memphis, TN	6
57	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	3
58	Davidson College Davidson, NC	3
59	Bates College Lewiston, ME	3
60	Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN	3
61	North Central College Naperville, IL	3
62	The College of Wooster Wooster, OH	3
63	Dickinson College Carlisle, PA	3
64	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	3
65	Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, MN	3
66	Eckerd College Saint Petersburg, FL	3