{"id":6468,"date":"2015-10-15T18:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2015-10-13T23:48:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:48:53","slug":"number-of-chinese-majors-in-u-s-universities-holding-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2015\/number-of-chinese-majors-in-u-s-universities-holding-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Chinese majors in U.S. universities holding steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, a total of 706 U.S. students majoring in Chinese graduated, a gain of just 6 students over the previous year. In addition, Japanese as a major continues to attract significantly more students than Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p>By way of contrast, in 2013 a total of 12,703 U.S. students graduated with degrees in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_japanese_language_majors.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_japanese_language_majors.png\" alt=\"chinese_japanese_language_majors\" width=\"1602\" height=\"749\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_japanese_language_majors.png 1602w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_japanese_language_majors-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_japanese_language_majors-1024x479.png 1024w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_japanese_language_majors-500x234.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1602px) 100vw, 1602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the strong growth of interest in Mandarin over the past two decades or so, only 2.34% of all students in U.S. universities <em>majoring in a foreign language<\/em> are majoring in Chinese, so the percentage of Mandarin majors among students overall is tiny indeed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_language_majors_percentage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_language_majors_percentage.png\" alt=\"chinese_language_majors_percentage\" width=\"1569\" height=\"729\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_language_majors_percentage.png 1569w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_language_majors_percentage-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_language_majors_percentage-1024x476.png 1024w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2015\/10\/chinese_language_majors_percentage-500x232.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1569px) 100vw, 1569px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The numbers are for graduating seniors in those years. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mla.org\/pdf\/2ndmajors200113.pdf\">Data on Second Majors in Language and Literature, 2001\u201313<\/a>, MLA Office of Research, Web publication, February 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, a total of 706 U.S. students majoring in Chinese graduated, a gain of just 6 students over the previous year. In addition, Japanese as a major continues to attract significantly more students than Mandarin. By way of contrast, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2015\/number-of-chinese-majors-in-u-s-universities-holding-steady\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6475,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}