2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Educational/Instructional Technology in the Far Western US Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$43,400
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Educational/Instructional Technology is the 109th most popular major in the country with 8,695 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 535 educational/instructional technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 educational/instructional technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in educational/instructional technology. That schools that top this list have a program in educational/instructional technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree educational/instructional technology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Educational/Instructional Technology in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pepperdine University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Malibu, California, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s educational/instructional technology degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%.
Read more about Educational/Instructional Technology at Pepperdine University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Educational/Instructional Technology at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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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
- *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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