2024 Best Educational/Instructional Technology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
40Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in educational/instructional technology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #91 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for educational/instructional technology students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 40 doctor's degrees in educational/instructional technology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Educational/Instructional Technology School for Your Doctor's Degree
The educational/instructional technology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality educational/instructional technology program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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 educational/instructional technology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other educational/instructional technology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized educational/instructional technology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for educational/instructional technology students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Educational/Instructional Technology Schools
The educational/instructional technology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Educational/Instructional Technology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Educational/Instructional Technology in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in educational/instructional technology.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Doctorate in Educational/Instructional Technology
Educational/Instructional Technology Related Rankings by Major
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Notes and References
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).