2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Florida

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 Assessment Major in Florida” 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 Florida, there were 16 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,198 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Florida” ranking analyzed 3 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in Florida

1

University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

#2 overall quality in Florida

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Miami landed the #1 spot on the list. U Miami is a private not-for-profit institution located in Coral Gables, Florida. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Educational Assessment at U Miami

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#1 overall quality in Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Florida list. This large school is located in Gainesville, Florida, and it awarded 2 masters’s assessment degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read more about Educational Assessment at UF

3

Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#3 overall quality in Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in Florida list. Florida State is a large public school situated in Tallahassee, Florida. It awarded 1 masters’s assessment degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Educational Assessment at Florida State University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’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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