East Asian Languages at Northern Kentucky University

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

NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and approximately 16,211 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 9 East Asian majors received their bachelor's degree from NKU.

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.

NKU East Asian Languages Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian

NKU East Asian Languages Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks East Asian programs across the country. The following shows how NKU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The East Asian major at NKU 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
	27

East Asian Student Demographics at NKU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the East Asian majors at Northern Kentucky University.

NKU East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Program

The East Asian program at NKU awarded 9 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 67% of these degrees went to men with the other 33% going to women. The typical East Asian bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at NKU since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

About 89% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in East Asian at NKU 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 Northern Kentucky University with a bachelor's in East Asian.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Germanic Languages
• 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 KY, the home state for Northern Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Interpreters and Translators	650	$49,690
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	210	$67,020

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 Samvscat under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.