2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community College Education in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community College Administration Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Community College Education is the 714th most popular major in the country with 354 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 98 community college education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 community college education graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community College Administration Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in community college education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their community college education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community College Administration Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community College Administration Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community College Education in the Southeast Region

1

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community College Administration Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Old Dominion University landed the #1 spot on the list. Norfolk, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s community college administration degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Community College Education at Old Dominion University

2

Wingate University
Wingate, North Carolina

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community College Administration Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wingate University landed the #2 spot on the list. Wingate, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s community college administration degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.

Read more about Community College Education at Wingate

3

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community College Administration Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s community college administration degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Community College Education at Mississippi State University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community College Education

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.

Credits

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