2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Plains States Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Plains States region, there were 459 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their teacher education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree teacher education students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Plains States Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #1 spot on the list. Iowa City, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s teacher education degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.
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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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