2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Other Education is the 178th most popular major in the country with 4,858 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 361 other education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 142 other education graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in other education. To top this list, a school must have a successful other education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.
Top 4 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 139 masters’s other education degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
Read more about Other Education at SMU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s other education students in 2020-2021.
Full Texas State University Other Education Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Prescott College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. Located in Prescott, Arizona, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified masters’s other education students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Education at Prescot College
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Edward’s University landed the #3 spot on the list. Saint Edward’s University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.
Full Saint Edward’s University Other Education Report
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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
- *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.
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