East Asian Languages at Wake Forest University

If you are interested in studying East Asian languages, you may want to check out the program at Wake Forest University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Wake Forest University is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and has a total student population of 8,789. Of the 1,472 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University in 2021, 9 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.

Wake Forest University East Asian Languages Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian

Wake Forest University East Asian Languages Rankings

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

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 Wake Forest University 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
Best East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
	15
Best Value East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	36
Best Value East Asian Languages Schools	45
Most Popular East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	55

East Asian Student Demographics at Wake Forest University

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

Wake Forest University East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 East Asian majors earned their bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University. Of these graduates, 67% were men and 33% were women. The typical East Asian bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at Wake Forest University since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in East Asian at Wake Forest University 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 Wake Forest University with a bachelor's in East Asian.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages
• Classical Languages & Literature
• Linguistics & Comparative Literature
• 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 NC, the home state for Wake Forest University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Interpreters and Translators	1,770	$59,310
Foreign Language and Literature Professors	840	$65,540

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 JHMM13 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.