亚洲研究文学硕士旨在使我们的学生成为全球公民，他们精通该地区的语言和文化，并具有将领域研究和专业能力相结合的智力灵活性，并认识到构成深远影响的复杂联系今天亚洲对美国的意义。我们的毕业生在广泛的领域中工作，从法律，生物研究，图形设计，计算机行业到国内外的公共服务以及海外企业家。我们的毕业生还在诸如UCLA，哥伦比亚大学，华盛顿大学，俄勒冈大学，印第安纳大学和芝加哥大学等地继续着名的研究生课程。
The Master of Arts in Asian Studies is designed to prepare our students to become global citizens, versed in the languages and cultures of the region, with the intellectual flexibility to combine area studies and professional competence, and cognizant of the complex linkages that define the profound relevance of Asia for the United States today. The M.A. in Asian Studies is a flexible interdisciplinary degree providing advanced language study and area studies education. The core program faculty include over 80 professors in 26 departments across ten colleges. In addition to strengths in history, literature, economics, political science, sociology, and geography, the program has strong interdisciplinary concentrations in health, visual culture, development studies, legal studies, gender studies, and environmental studies. The degree can be used either as preparation for further academic studies at the Ph.D. level with our graduates having gone on to prestigious graduate programs at universities such as UCLA, Columbia University, University of Washington, University of Oregon, Indiana University, and the University of Chicago. Or, the degree can be used as preparation for careers in government service, international law, international business, and education. It may be usefully combined with a Master's in Business, Law, Public Administration, Public Health and other professional degrees. Our graduates have jobs in a wide variety of fields, from law, biological research, graphic design, and the computer industry to public service here and abroad as well as overseas entrepreneurship.