East Asian studies

Graduate School
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<p>OK, any ideas about Columbia's LSMA Liberal Arts East Asian studies program?</p>

<p>I come from a BA management and BA chinese studies background, and would like to fuse business and China together on a grand scale. Research, publish ...
Later MBA</p>

<p>i know that SIPA/SAIS and MIA degrees are more professional. I would like to know if I go to LSMA what opportunities am I looking at/what am I missing out/how good of a choice is it?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>other school im looking at is LSE-PKU program</p>

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<p>In addition to the above mentioned schools, Id like to hear from any current students or recent grads of MA EAS programs about what are commonly thought of as the top programs. Im really interested in sharpening my Korean language skills and doing some interdisciplinary work, but are these degrees really worthwhile? What jobs do EAS grads usually go after?</p>

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<p>Stanford’s and Berkeley’s.</p>

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<p>@RamsesI: I’m not sure how true this is, but my college’s website says that Asian Studies majors are likely to be employed as government analysts, diplomats, journalists, Peace Corps volunteers, minority rights advocates, translators and (everyone’s favorite fallback option) teachers or teachers’ assistants. </p>

<p>Basically a lot of the same stuff as International Relations majors.</p>

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<p>If you want to do business why not just do a double MA/MBA. Cornell, Columbia, WashuSTL, Harvard, and most top schools have programs for students that want to do business and asian studies. Its a less roundabout method than what graduate wants. East Asian studies masters in general are in general not designed to be terminal degrees. They are designed for students wanting to study a doctorate. What you are talking about is two different path and imho unless you want a phD in business its better just do to the double mba/ma instead of back and forth with an eas masters. Its a year less of experience you’ll have for the mba and a year less in the work force. Now if you wan IR than you should be doing an area studies like china while doing international economics like at SAIS. I personally think the OP needs to really consider what he wants mba or academia. Unless he is planning to go back to school later in the years its better to just get cracking with the mba.</p>

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<p>You probably don’t want the LSMA as it’s not really business-oriented, but you might want to do the Regional Studies: East Asia program instead. A good breakdown of which program is for what type of student is here: [East</a> Asian Liberal Studies](<a href=“GSAS”>GSAS)</p>