2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2021-2022, 3,853 people earned their degree in educational assessment, making the major the 184th most popular in the United States. In , educational assessment graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $55,573 and had an average of $36,314 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 172 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,415 and $23,858 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in educational assessment. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in educational assessment.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in the Great Lakes Region

1

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s assessment students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Northwestern Educational Assessment Report

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Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

#8 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Purdue is a large public school situated in West Lafayette, Indiana. It awarded 18 bachelors’s assessment degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 Educational Assessment at Purdue

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Western Illinois University
Macomb, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Illinois University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Macomb, Illinois, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s assessment students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Educational Assessment at Western Illinois University

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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