2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Teacher Education is the 97th most popular major in the country with 9,653 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 310 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 126 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in teacher education. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree teacher education students.
Top 7 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the New England Region
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New England landed the #1 spot on the list. UNE is located in Biddeford, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 59 masters’s teacher education degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of New England Teacher Education Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 51 masters’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 University of Southern Maine Teacher Education Report
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Connecticut State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Eastern Connecticut State University is located in Willimantic, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 masters’s teacher education degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Teacher Education at Eastern Connecticut State University
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Connecticut State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Danbury, Connecticut, this small public school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified masters’s teacher education students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Teacher Education at WestConn
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bridgewater State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region list. Bridgewater State is a public institution located in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Teacher Education at Bridgewater State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bennington College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region list. Bennington College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bennington, Vermont. It awarded 0 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Teacher Education at Bennington
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Plymouth State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the New England Region list. Plymouth, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s teacher education degrees to 0 students 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 Plymouth State University Teacher Education Report
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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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