<p>Hello. I'm a senior in high school, and I'm interested in majoring in Chinese. Which colleges have the best Chinese programs?</p>
<p>A lot of schools in California have excellent programs. UCLA, UCB and Pomona College (be warned, I go there so I'm biased) are all well respected. The University of Washington has an excellent Asian languages department, and Columbia (at least for Japanese) is also well thought of.</p>
<p>Well you dont necessarily have to look for specifically Chinese major. Also look at East Asian Studies and see if the program has sufficient Chinese to satisfy you (i plan on doing Japanese, so my number 1 criteria is that college has 4 years of Japanese and then some (classical japanese, advanced reading etc)</p>
<p>Yeah, ide say some of the best are easily UCB, U of Washington, and probably UCLA and UCSD. Definitely Berkeley though and Washington of the ones i listed.</p>
<p>I dunno how U of Hawaii is, but i do know that their japanese dept. is the most extensive in the US...But i definitely dont want to go there. Its a super safety for me, filled with cockroaches and people who only wanna get high all the time (not exactly the environment im lookin for)</p>
<p>Oh, uchicago is great for Chinese</p>
<p>U Chicago's pretty high on my list. The urban, intellectual environment portrayed in their mailed materials appeals to me. I haven't actually visited though.</p>
<p>georgetown has a great chinese program also. maybe you'll want to study abroad junior year or so to get a taste of the language in the actual setting.</p>
<p>Ohio State has a very strong Chinese program.</p>
<p>Michigan ann arbor has a very good asian studys program, especially the graduate program, but the undergraduate is still very good.</p>
<p>"U Chicago's pretty high on my list. The urban, intellectual environment portrayed in their mailed materials appeals to me. I haven't actually visited though."</p>
<p>Actually, it is almost as good as it comes (program wise). Campus is gorgeous too though.
But i must warn you, it is in a not so friendly black neighborhood.
Which in chicago, the different areas are incredibly segragated, and whites tend to be discriminated against, especially by blacks. Thats at least what happened to me and my friends there. I went there this summer to take Japanese and my roommate took Chinese.</p>
<p>U of Washington (Seattle)</p>
<p>Columbia University (no Chinese major, but excellent East Asian studies offerings. The School of International and Public Affairs is a graduate school).</p>
<p>Also, I'd talk to U of Chicago community members before swallowing Bigtwix's generalized anecdote 'whole cloth.'</p>