Teaching English or French is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #52 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Teaching English or French Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 163 master's degrees in teaching english or french during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Teaching English or French School for Your Master's Degree
The english or french master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality english or french program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to teaching english or french students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of teaching english or french students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for teaching english or french to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized teaching english or french related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for teaching english or french students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Teaching English or French Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Teaching English or French Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Teaching English or French in Pennsylvania
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in teaching english or french.
Top Pennsylvania Schools for a Master's in English or French
Wilkes University is a good decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in teaching english or french. Wilkes is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Wilkes-Barre.
Master's students who receive their degree from the english or french program earn an average of $62,713 for their early career.
Holy Family University is a good choice for students pursuing a master's degree in teaching english or french. Holy Family is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.
Teaching English or French master's degree recipients from Holy Family University receive an earnings boost of around $2,209 over the average earnings of teaching english or french graduates.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).