2024 Best Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
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Colleges in the Far Western US Region
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Doctor's Degrees
If you pursue a doctor's degree in
higher education/higher education administration, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #39 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for higher education/higher education administration students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 37 doctor's degrees in higher education/higher education administration during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Higher Education/Higher Education Administration School for Your Doctor's Degree
The higher education/higher education administration doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality higher education/higher education administration program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on higher education/higher education administration students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other higher education/higher education administration students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized higher education/higher education administration related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for higher education/higher education administration students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.