2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Texas
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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 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 Secondary Teaching Major in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Secondary Education is the 84th most popular major in the country with 11,071 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Texas, there were 340 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 64 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,529 and $37,012 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 14 colleges that offered a degree in secondary education. That schools that top this list have a program in secondary education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas”.
Top 14 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Texas
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Austin College landed the #1 spot on the list. Austin College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Sherman, Texas. It awarded 8 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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 Secondary Education at Austin College
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 Secondary Teaching Major in Texas. Trinity U is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%. 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 excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Trinity U Secondary Education Report
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi is a fairly large public school situated in Corpus Christi, Texas. It awarded 2 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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 Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Secondary Education Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lubbock Christian University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas. LCU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 3 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full LCU Secondary Education Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas. This fairly large school is located in Commerce, Texas, and it awarded 18 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Secondary Education at Texas A&M Commerce
Texas State University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas list. Texas State is a large public school situated in San Marcos, Texas. It awarded 24 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Secondary Education at Texas State
With a ranking of #7, Rice University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 6 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Rice Secondary Education Report
Wayland Baptist University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas ranking. Wayland Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Plainview, Texas. It awarded 0 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Secondary Education at Wayland Baptist University
University of North Texas came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas ranking. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 0 masters’s secondary 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%.
Full University of North Texas Secondary Education Report
Stephen F Austin State University ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas list. Stephen F Austin State University is located in Nacogdoches, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 masters’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.
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%.
Full SFASU Secondary Education Report
With a ranking of #8, University of the Incarnate Word did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas list. University of the Incarnate Word is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 masters’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 more about Secondary Education at University of the Incarnate Word
With a ranking of #8, Dallas Baptist University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas list. Dallas Baptist University is a small school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 0 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
Read more about Secondary Education at DBU
With a ranking of #8, LeTourneau University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas list. LETU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Longview, 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 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Secondary Education at LeTourneau University
University of St. Thomas ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Texas list. UST is a small school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 0 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Secondary Education at UST
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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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