Asian Studies at Purdue University - Main Campus

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

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and has a total student population of 46,655.

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.

Purdue Asian Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Asian Studies

Purdue Asian Studies Rankings

The asian studies major at Purdue 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 Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the asian studies majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Asian Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of asian studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical asian studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 39% men. So male students are more repesented at Purdue since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in asian studies at Purdue 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 Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in asian studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Italian Studies
• American U.S. 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 IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	60	$79,960

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 Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.