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<\/a><\/p>\nHere are a few more years. When looking at the earlier peaks, it’s worth remember that there are a lot more people in graduate school now than there were several decades ago, both in absolute terms<\/a> and as a percentage of the population. So the recent figures are even more bleak than they might appear at first glance. <\/p>\n U.S. graduate-level enrollments in Japanese, 1960\u20132013<\/strong> You might be wondering how Japanese stacks up against another Asian language. Here’s a comparison with graduate enrollments in Chinese (in blue). Again, the situation isn’t looking good for Japanese. <\/p>\n Graduate enrollments in Japanese vs. graduate enrollments in Chinese, 1986\u20132013<\/strong> And here’s a look at the number of undergraduate enrollments in Japanese (green) and Chinese (blue) per enrollment in a graduate course in the same respective language. <\/p>\n Number of undergraduate enrollments in Japanese and Chinese per enrollment in a graduate course for the same language<\/strong> Even so, boosters of Japanese may take heart that there are still<\/em> more post-secondary enrollments in Japanese than in Mandarin. But more on that in a later post. <\/p>\n (For those of you who are wondering, no, this blog isn’t really back just yet. But I think these numbers are interesting. Also, my MLA-related posts don’t need Hanzi or Pinyin diacritics, which would only get messed up anyway. Thus, I might as well post the information for others to see.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fewer and fewer people are taking graduate-level Japanese classes in U.S. universities, according to data recently released by the MLA. Graduate-level enrollments in Japanese classes are at their lowest level since 1983 and have declined to less than half of … Continue reading
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