2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Far Western US Region

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In 2021-2022, 9,653 people earned their degree in teacher education, making the major the 97th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,794 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,633 and $152,837 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in teacher education.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree teacher education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of Nevada - Las Vegas is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s teacher education degrees to qualified students.

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%.

Read full report on Teacher Education at UNLV

2

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Far Western US Region list. Washington State University is a large public school situated in Pullman, Washington. It awarded 321 doctorate’s teacher education degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Washington State University Teacher Education 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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