2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Learning Sciences is the 337th most popular major in the country with 1,541 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 112 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in learning sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in learning sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school handed out 22 diplomas to qualified masters’s learning sciences students in 2020-2021.

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University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. UCO is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s learning sciences degrees to qualified students.

Full UCO Learning Sciences Report

• 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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