If you pursue a master's degree in curriculum & instruction, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #13 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of curriculum & instruction. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 551 master's degrees in curriculum & instruction during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Choosing a Great Curriculum & Instruction School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of curriculum & instruction for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on curriculum & instruction students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of curriculum & instruction students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt curriculum & instruction students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized curriculum & instruction related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for curriculum & instruction students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Curriculum & Instruction Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Curriculum & Instruction Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Curriculum & Instruction in Massachusetts
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in curriculum & instruction.
Top Massachusetts Schools for a Master's in Curriculum
It is difficult to beat Boston College if you wish to pursue a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. Located in the city of Chestnut Hill, Boston College is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the curriculum program make an average of $55,608 in the first couple years of working.
Boston University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Master's recipients from the curriculum & instruction degree program at Boston University make $5,482 above the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Fitchburg State University is a good choice for students pursuing a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. Located in the suburb of Fitchburg, Fitchburg State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
Those curriculum & instruction students who get their master's degree from Fitchburg State University make $4,186 more than the average curriculum grad.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
Your choice of curriculum & instruction for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
