East Asian Languages at Vassar College

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

Vassar is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and has a total student population of 2,435. In 2021, 9 East Asian majors received their bachelor's degree from Vassar.

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.

Vassar East Asian Languages Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian

Vassar East Asian Languages Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks East Asian programs across the country. The following shows how Vassar 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 Vassar 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	11
Most Focused East Asian Languages Schools	13
	16
Best Value East Asian Languages Schools	54
Most Popular East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	55
Most Popular East Asian Languages Schools	75

East Asian Student Demographics at Vassar

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the East Asian majors at Vassar College.

Vassar East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 East Asian majors earned their bachelor's degree from Vassar. Of these graduates, 44% were men and 56% were women. The typical East Asian bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at Vassar since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Vassar 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
• 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 Vassar College.

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 Noteremote under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.