2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching is the 197th most popular major in the country with 3,583 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 244 junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in junior high/intermediate/middle school education & teaching.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

1

Austin College
Sherman, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region list. Austin College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sherman, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching at Austin College

2

Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region. Trinity U is a private not-for-profit institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Trinity U Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching Report

2

LeTourneau University
Longview, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LeTourneau University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Longview, Texas, and it awarded 0 masters’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 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full LeTourneau University Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching Report

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

Footnotes

• *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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