If you plan on getting your master's degree in multilingual education, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #123 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Multilingual Education Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 135 master's degrees in multilingual education during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to multilingual education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other multilingual education students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt multilingual education 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 multilingual education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for multilingual education students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Multilingual Education Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Multilingual Education in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in multilingual education.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Master's in Multilingual Education
Northern Arizona University is a wonderful decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in multilingual education. Located in the small city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the multilingual education program earn about $54,988 in their early career salary.
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).
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