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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching is the 197th most popular major in the country with 3,583 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,735 and $124,256 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching. That schools that top this list have a program in junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brenau University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major list. This small school is located in Gainesville, Georgia, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
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 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching at Brenau University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kennesaw State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major list. Kennesaw State University is a large public school situated in Kennesaw, Georgia. It awarded 31 doctorate’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching at Kennesaw State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Mississippi State is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 0 doctorate’s junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%.
Read full report on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching at Mississippi State University
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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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