2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in Connecticut

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Educational Assessment is the 184th most popular major in the country with 2,552 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Connecticut, there were 13 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Connecticut” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in educational assessment. That schools that top this list have a program in educational assessment in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Connecticut

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in Connecticut

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Connecticut. UCONN is a public institution located in Storrs, Connecticut. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, 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 full report on Educational Assessment at UCONN

2

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

#17 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Connecticut State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Connecticut. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s assessment students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Educational Assessment at Southern Connecticut State University

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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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