If you pursue a master's degree in general education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #12 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Education Master's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 776 master's degrees in general education to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Education School for Your Master's Degree
The education master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general education students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for general education to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general education students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Education Master's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study General Education in Arizona
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for general education students seeking a a master's degree.
Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in general education needs to check out University of Arizona. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Soon after graduation, education master's recipients typically earn around $41,247 at the beginning of their careers.
Grand Canyon University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in general education. Located in the large city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Those general education students who get their master's degree from Grand Canyon University earn $9,031 more than the typical education grad.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).