East Asian Languages at United States Military Academy

If you plan to study East Asian languages, take a look at what United States Military Academy has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

West Point is located in West Point, New York and has a total student population of 4,536. Of the 1,058 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from United States Military Academy in 2021, 10 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.

West Point East Asian Languages Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian

West Point East Asian Languages Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The East Asian major at West Point 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	17
Most Focused East Asian Languages Schools	19
Most Popular East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	50
Most Popular East Asian Languages Schools	65

East Asian Student Demographics at West Point

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the East Asian majors at United States Military Academy.

West Point East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Program

Of the 10 students who earned a bachelor's degree in East Asian Languages from West Point in 2020-2021, 80% were men and 20% were women. The typical East Asian bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at West Point since its program graduates 37% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% 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 United States Military Academy with a bachelor's in East Asian.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

West Point 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
• Middle Eastern Semitic Languages
• Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other)
• Slavic, Baltic & Albanian 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 NY, the home state for United States Military Academy.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Interpreters and Translators	3,300	$68,940
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	3,130	$87,670

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 Ahodges7 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.