Asian Studies at Bowdoin College

If you plan to study asian studies, take a look at what Bowdoin College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Bowdoin is located in Brunswick, Maine and has a total student population of 1,777.

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

Bowdoin Asian Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Asian Studies

Bowdoin Asian Studies Rankings

The asian studies major at Bowdoin is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Asian Studies. 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.

Asian Studies Student Demographics at Bowdoin

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the asian studies majors at Bowdoin College.

Bowdoin Asian Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of asian studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 80% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% more racial-ethnic minorities in its asian studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Italian Studies
• Latin American Studies
• African Studies
• French Studies
• Spanish & Iberian Studies

Careers That Asian Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in asian studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for ME, the home state for Bowdoin College.

Occupation	Jobs in ME	Average Salary in ME
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	40	$79,080

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.