<p>The University of Virginia is missing from this list. First of all, while the Confucius Institutes may be a good thing, they are not a good indicator of the breadth and depth of an East Asian studies program. Often it is precisely the schools that have almost nothing in East Asian studies who are most attracted to the quick fix of a Confucius Institute. East Asian studies in the US has a long history, at least 100 years, with the earliest programs to excel being the Ivy league universities. Many good public universities, particularly the premier public universities in each state in the northern half of the continental US (Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey) have strong, sizable and well-seasoned Asian studies programs. The University of Virginia is the premier East Asian studies program among southeastern universities, with only Duke being better. With particular strength in Political Science and Religious Studies, Virginia has for many years had superb Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language teaching, and has two tenured professors in both Chinese and Japanese literature. Just this year UVa successfully won a Title VI grant from the federal government designating it as one of only a dozen or more critical language National Resource Centers for East Asian Languages. The special features of UVa’s East Asian Language programs are that, unlike most other universities that offer East Asian languages, UVa’s teachers can train other teachers and each of the three languages has Oral Proficiency Interviewers Certified by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. For Chinese, UVa also offers a highly effective summer intensive language program at East China Normal University in Shanghai.</p>