Asian Studies at Boston University has grown over the last two decades into an important and comprehensive group of faculty and resources in Asian humanities and social sciences.

Asian Studies at Boston University includes over forty full-time faculty and instructors spanning nearly all relevant fields and geographical areas, with our greatest strengths currently in East Asia, Central Asia, and Islam in Asia.

At the center of Asian Studies at BU, the East Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program (EAS Program) offers courses in a wide variety of humanities and social science departments, providing one of the most complete such programs in the country. The Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature (MLCL) offers rigorous training in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.  Students can also choose one of the Asia-related tracks available through other Boston University schools and departments, including special programs like BU School of Management's International Management MBA Program in China and Japan.

Boston University is also home to the International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH), which is a leader in research and education, serving scholars and students both at BU and internationally. It provides the editorial home for the Journal of East Asian Archaeology, undertakes extensive research and public outreach activities, and disseminates information about archaeological research in East and Southeast Asia.

BU offers extraordinary library resources in Asian Studies, such as the Menges-Jettmar-Frye collections on Central Asia and the K. C. Chang collection on East and Southeast Asian archaeology and anthropology.

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