2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Alabama

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 General Education Major in Alabama” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 29,810 people earned their degree in general education, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States.

Across Alabama, there were 115 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,476 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Alabama” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general education.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Alabama

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Alabama

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Troy University
Troy, Alabama

#12 overall quality in Alabama

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Troy University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Troy, Alabama, this fairly large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s general education students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Education at Troy University

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University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

#4 overall quality in Alabama

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Alabama. UAB is a public institution located in Birmingham, Alabama. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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 University of Alabama at Birmingham General Education Report

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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.

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