2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Massachusetts
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Massachusetts” ranking.
Teacher Education is the 97th most popular major in the country with 9,653 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Massachusetts, there were 123 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,135 and $11,600 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in teacher education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Massachusetts
The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts associate degree teacher education students.
Top 1 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Massachusetts
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Essex Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Haverhill, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s teacher education degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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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