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2022 Best Value Education Admin Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k

3 Ranked Colleges
56 Degrees Awarded
$26,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Education Admin Schools for a Master's in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k

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Educational Administration is the 26th most popular major in the country with 45,664 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, educational administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $59,025 and had an average of $38,048 in loans still to pay off.

Across Montana, there were 75 educational administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,500 and $16,326 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 56 educational administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,863 and $41,012 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Education Admin Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in educational administration. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent educational administration programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the educational administration program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Education Admin Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Education Admin Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Administration (Income $0-$30k) in Montana

#1

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Education Admin Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Missoula, Montana, and it awarded 15 masters’s education admin degrees in 2019-2020.

UM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Educational Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Montana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UM are $23,242, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Educational Administration at UM

#2

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Education Admin Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Montana State University is a fairly large school located in Bozeman, Montana that handed out 27 masters’s education admin degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Bozeman not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Educational Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Montana” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Montana State University are $21,446.

Full Montana State University Educational Administration Report

#3

Rocky Mountain College

Billings, Montana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rocky Mountain College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Education Admin Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k. Billings, Montana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s education admin degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

Rocky not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Educational Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Montana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rocky are $34,805, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Rocky Educational Administration 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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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