2024 Best Elementary Education Doctor's Degree Schools
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Colleges in the United States
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Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in
elementary education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #320 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for elementary education students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 26 doctor's degrees in elementary education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Elementary Education School for Your Doctor's Degree
The elementary teaching doctor'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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on elementary education students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of elementary education students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized elementary education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for elementary education students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Elementary Education Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Elementary Education Doctor's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.