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Best Value Colleges for East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Schools ranked by payback period — how quickly you recoup your investment through higher earnings.

Schools Ranked

$30,626

Avg. Earnings

4.4 yrs

Best Payback

568

Graduates

How we calculate value: Payback = (4 years of net price) / (major earnings - $35k baseline). A 2-year payback means you recoup your investment in 2 years through higher earnings vs. not attending college.

#	School	Net Price/yr	Major Earnings	Payback
1	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD · Public	$17,360	$50,856	4.4 yrs
2	University of Florida Gainesville, FL · Public	$8,394	$42,682	4.4 yrs
3	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN · Private	$14,020	$45,715	5.2 yrs
4	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI · Public	$10,364	$42,682	5.4 yrs
5	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA · Private	$22,826	$46,478	8 yrs
6	Brigham Young University Provo, UT · Private	$12,676	$39,153	12.2 yrs
7	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX · Public	$16,134	$39,369	14.8 yrs
8	San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA · Public	$16,065	$31,848	N/A
9	University of California-Davis Davis, CA · Public	$14,193	$30,988	N/A
10	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA · Public	$12,644	$33,993	N/A
11	University of Oregon Eugene, OR · Public	$16,014	$30,984	N/A
12	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI · Public	$20,557	$32,925	N/A
13	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA · Public	$8,393	$29,685	N/A
14	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN · Public	$12,369	$23,579	N/A
15	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ · Public	$15,561	$31,305	N/A
16	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI · Public	$15,183	$31,462	N/A
17	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH · Public	$13,273	$34,704	N/A
18	University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC · Public	$16,938	$20,140	N/A
19	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL · Public	$11,506	$23,649	N/A
20	Ball State University Muncie, IN · Public	$15,158	$25,194	N/A
21	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN · Public	$12,911	$21,781	N/A
22	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA · Public	$13,275	$32,925	N/A
23	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA · Public	$16,667	$31,314	N/A
24	Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI · Public	$14,547	$28,598	N/A
25	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA · Public	$11,189	$25,194	N/A
26	CUNY Queens College Queens, NY · Public	$7,582	$20,140	N/A
27	Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY · Private	$17,403	$20,140	N/A
28	University at Albany Albany, NY · Public	$19,727	$19,455	N/A
29	University of Kentucky Lexington, KY · Public	$16,708	$15,922	N/A
30	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA · Public	$24,139	$15,922	N/A

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Payback uses earnings by major from the College Scorecard's field-of-study file, last updated June 2026, against net price from the June 2026 release. Scorecard publishes the two separately, so they are different vintages.