2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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Learning Sciences is the 337th most popular major in the country with 2,449 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 117 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in learning sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their learning sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences in the Southwest Region

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University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 29 masters’s learning sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Learning Sciences at UNM

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University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. UCO is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 masters’s learning sciences degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Central Oklahoma Learning Sciences Report

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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