Other Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #78 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of other education. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 153 master's degrees in other education during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Other Education School for Your Master's Degree
The other education master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on other education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other other education students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for other education to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized other education related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other education students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Other Education Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Other Education in the Plains States Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in other education.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Master's in Other Education
It is difficult to beat Lindenwood University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in other education. Located in the city of Saint Charles, Lindenwood University is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the other education program make about $47,065 in the first couple years of their career.
It's difficult to beat Newman University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in other education. Newman University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Wichita.
Students who graduate with their master's from the other education program report average early career wages of $57,002.
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).