2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Education & Leadership in the Great Lakes Region

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Urban Education & Leadership is the 498th most popular major in the country with 736 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 96 urban education and leadership graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 urban education and leadership graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in urban education and leadership. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their urban education and leadership program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Education & Leadership in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 16 doctorate’s urban education and leadership degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Urban Education & Leadership at University of Illinois at Chicago

2

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a large public school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 10 doctorate’s urban education and leadership degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Urban Education & Leadership at UWM

3

Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Urban Education and Leadership Major in the Great Lakes Region. IUPUI is a large public school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 5 doctorate’s urban education and leadership degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full IUPUI Urban Education & Leadership Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Education & Leadership

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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