East Asian Languages at The University of Texas at Austin

If you plan to study East Asian languages, take a look at what The University of Texas at Austin has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UT Austin is located in Austin, Texas and has a total student population of 50,476. Of the 10,592 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2021, 21 of them were East Asian languages majors.

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.

UT Austin East Asian Languages Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in East Asian (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian
• Doctorate Degree in East Asian

UT Austin East Asian Languages Rankings

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

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 UT Austin 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	98

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in East Asian from UT Austin. This is the #26 most popular school for East Asian master’s degree candidates in the country.

East Asian Student Demographics at UT Austin

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the East Asian majors at The University of Texas at Austin.

UT Austin East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 48% of East Asian bachelor's degrees went to men and 52% went to women. The typical East Asian bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at UT Austin since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities in its East Asian bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in East Asian.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	7
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

UT Austin also has a doctoral program available in East Asian. In 2021, 1 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Germanic Languages
• Middle Eastern Semitic Languages
• Classical Languages & Literature
• 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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas at Austin.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Interpreters and Translators	5,460	$58,650
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	1,620	$71,920

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 Reid Sullivan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.