<p>What colleges have the best programs for Political Science and East Asian Studies? I am looking for East Asian Studies programs that include a substantial amount of coursework on Korea in addition to coursework on China and Japan. Please feel free to include Ivies and other top-tier colleges in your responses.</p>
<p>Thanks,
Flammy</p>
<p>I’ve looked and so far, Harvard is the best that I can come up with. Take a look at Columbia, too.</p>
<p>number of bachelors grads in East Asian Languages/Studies</p>
<p>sorted by selectivity</p>
<p>Yale University 5
University of Chicago 4
Dartmouth College 4
Williams College 8
Reed College 2
Stanford University 5
Georgetown University 16
University of Notre Dame 2
Tufts University 9
Wellesley College 4
Carleton College 2
Washington University in St Louis 10
University of Pennsylvania 15
Northwestern University 3
Grinnell College 5
Vassar College 6
Middlebury College 14
Washington and Lee University 2
Emory University 5
Macalester College 5
University of Southern California 24
Colgate University 3
University of California-Berkeley 41
Smith College 8
Beloit College 11
University of Rochester 5
Wake Forest University 3
Bennington College 5
George Washington University 8
Trinity University 4
University of California-Los Angeles 22
University of Maryland-College Park 26
Boston University 5
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 32
University of Florida 15
North Central College 3
Brigham Young University 55
University of Wisconsin-Madison 19
University of Georgia 13
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 17
The University of Texas at Austin 33
Ohio State University-Main Campus 35
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 37
University of California-Santa Barbara 14
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus 2
University of the Pacific 3
University of Colorado at Boulder 41
Rutgers University-New Brunswick 3
University of Utah 22
University of California-Davis 40
University of California-Irvine 18
Indiana University-Bloomington 13
Michigan State University 14
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 12
University of Massachusetts Amherst 34
Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus 24</p>
<p>Wesleyan.
Princeton.</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Chicago, Penn, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, Michigan, Virginia, NYU, and Washington University come to my mind.</p>
<p>This is just my experience as an undergrad and grad student studying politics and East Asia. Take it with whatever grain of salt you want.</p>
<p>Oberlin has a remarkable 57 current East Asian Studies majors. [EAS</a> Majors](<a href=“http://www.oberlin.edu/eas/students/majors.html]EAS”>http://www.oberlin.edu/eas/students/majors.html)
It is one of the more popular majors there.</p>
<p>I majored in international relations and east asian studies at Penn, both were phenomenal experiences with departments that were very focused on their undergrads. I had the opportunity to go to drinking with my professors…when I ran into them in Korea. One of them knew the professor directing the renovation of Kyeongbok Palace and we got a private tour while it was marked off-limits to the public.</p>
<p>Penn’s resources helped me to find different work experiences each summer. I spent summers in Seoul, Singapore, and Beijing. </p>
<p>Anyway, great programs there for undergrads.</p>
<p>The new treasury secretary was an east asian studies and government major (our poli-sci major) at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>^ woot that’s a pretty cool fact XD</p>
<p>Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, UMich, Penn, UChicago, Stanford, Cornell, Indiana, Princeton, and Columbia.</p>
<p>Over a month after posting this thread without receiving any replies, suddenly a dozen people come out of nowhere to help me out. How surprising. xD</p>
<p>Well, here’s a response that comes over two months after the early-January burst of responses.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your replies – it’s very relieving to hear the names of many of the colleges that I decided to apply to last year. I can’t wait until late-March/early-April! (=</p>
<p>You should check out Oberlin.</p>
<p>Wisconsin-Poli Sci is the most popular ug major and they have Korean Studies.</p>
<p>[Korean</a> studies initiative advances with major grant (June 1, 2007)](<a href=“http://www.news.wisc.edu/13845]Korean”>Korean studies initiative advances with major grant)</p>
<p>My D is interested in East Asia Studies with a focus on the role of arts (NOT political science) in influencing past, present and future socio-economic aspects in that region. She’s a keen/critical sense of arts but doesn’t think that she has the talents to practice and totally interested in the culture of East Asia. Plans to take AP Chinese in junior year and then learn Japanese. Any insights on how to go about her college years to fulfill this interest?</p>