2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Evaluation & Research in the Far Western US Region

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In 2021-2022, 631 people earned their degree in educational evaluation & research, making the major the 779th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 81 educational evaluation & research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 educational evaluation & research graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in educational evaluation & research. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their educational evaluation & research program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Evaluation & Research in the Far Western US Region

1

Southern California Institute of Architecture
Los Angeles, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern California Institute of Architecture. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s educational evaluation and research students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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2

Stanford University
Stanford, California

#1 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stanford University landed the #2 spot on the list. Stanford is a fairly large school located in Stanford, California that handed out 4 masters’s educational evaluation and research degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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University of California - Irvine
Irvine, California

#23 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Irvine. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Irvine, California, this large public school awarded 20 diplomas to qualified masters’s educational evaluation and research students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Educational Evaluation & Research at UC Irvine

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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