2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,552 people earned their degree in educational assessment, making the major the 184th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, educational assessment graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $55,573 and had an average of $34,777 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 41 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in educational assessment. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their educational assessment program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree assessment students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in the New England Region

1

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

#11 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region list. Boston College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Educational Assessment at Boston College

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Assessment Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s assessment students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Connecticut Educational Assessment Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment

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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