2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Educational Leadership & Administration in Utah

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Educational Leadership and Administration Major in Utah for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Educational Leadership & Administration is the 32nd most popular major in the country with 32,837 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Utah, there were 664 general educational leadership and administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 577 general educational leadership and administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,613 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Educational Leadership and Administration Major in Utah for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general educational leadership and administration. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in general educational leadership and administration.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Educational Leadership and Administration Major in Utah for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for utah master’s degree educational leadership and administration students.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Educational Leadership & Administration in Utah

1

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, Utah

#2 overall quality in Utah

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Educational Leadership and Administration Major in Utah for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Governors University landed the #1 spot on the list. WGU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 512 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 General Educational Leadership & Administration at WGU

2

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#3 overall quality in Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Educational Leadership and Administration Major in Utah for a Master’s. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s educational leadership and administration degrees to 46 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Educational Leadership & Administration at University of Utah

3

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#1 overall quality in Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Provo. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Educational Leadership and Administration Major in Utah for a Master’s. Provo, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s educational leadership and administration degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 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

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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