2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in California

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In 2020-2021, 1,541 people earned their degree in learning sciences, making the major the 337th most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 65 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,974 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in California” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in learning sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their learning sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in California

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in California”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences in California

1

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in California list. University of Southern California is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 22 masters’s learning sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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2

Pepperdine University
Malibu, California

#19 overall quality in California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pepperdine University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in California list. Pepperdine is a fairly large school located in Malibu, California that handed out 1 masters’s learning sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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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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