2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 75 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 47 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree learning sciences students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Wilson College
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wilson College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Wilson College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It awarded 5 masters’s learning sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Learning Sciences at Wilson

2

University of Maryland Global Campus
Adelphi, Maryland

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland Global Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Maryland Global Campus is a public institution located in Adelphi, Maryland. The school has a large population, and it awarded 40 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.

Full UMGC Learning Sciences Report

3

American University
Washington, District of Columbia

Top 10% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, American University landed the #3 spot on the list. The American University is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 2 masters’s learning sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Learning Sciences at American University

4

Wilmington University
New Castle, Delaware

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wilmington University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in New Castle, Delaware, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s learning sciences students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Learning Sciences at Wilmington University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences

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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