2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region

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Educational Assessment is the 184th most popular major in the country with 3,853 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. 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 New England region, there were 452 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in educational assessment. That schools that top this list have a program in educational assessment in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in the New England Region

1

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

#11 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region. Located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s assessment students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%.

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2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region. University of Connecticut is a public institution located in Storrs, Connecticut. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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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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