East Asian Languages at Bennington College

What traits are you looking for in a East Asian school? To help you decide if Bennington College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's East Asian program.

Bennington is located in Bennington, Vermont and has a total student population of 799. In 2021, 12 East Asian majors received their bachelor's degree from Bennington.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in East Asian Languages section at the bottom of this page.

Bennington East Asian Languages Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian

Bennington East Asian Languages Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the East Asian progam at Bennington compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The East Asian major at Bennington is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for East Asian Languages. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Most Popular East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	41
Most Popular East Asian Languages Schools	54

East Asian Student Demographics at Bennington

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the East Asian majors at Bennington College.

Bennington East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students earned a bachelor's degree in East Asian from Bennington. About 50% of these graduates were women and the other 50% were men. The typical East Asian bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at Bennington since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in East Asian at Bennington are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Bennington College with a bachelor's in East Asian.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	7
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Bennington also has a doctoral program available in East Asian. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Linguistics & Comparative Literature
• Romance Languages

Careers That East Asian Grads May Go Into

A degree in East Asian can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VT, the home state for Bennington College.

Occupation	Jobs in VT	Average Salary in VT
Interpreters and Translators	120	$46,270

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jared C. Benedict. under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.