2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Evaluation & Research in Massachusetts

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Educational Evaluation & Research is the 779th most popular major in the country with 293 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Massachusetts, there were 22 educational evaluation and research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 educational evaluation and research graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,084 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in educational evaluation and research. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in educational evaluation and research.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in Massachusetts

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts master’s degree educational evaluation and research students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Evaluation & Research in Massachusetts

1

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

#6 overall quality in Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in Massachusetts list. This fairly large school is located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and it awarded 5 masters’s educational evaluation and research degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Educational Evaluation & Research at Boston College

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Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#2 overall quality in Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Educational Evaluation and Research Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 4 masters’s educational evaluation and research degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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.

Credits

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