If you plan on getting your master's degree in other education, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #78 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for other education students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 39 master's degrees in other education to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Other Education School for Your Master's Degree
The other 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on other education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other other education students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for other 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 other education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for other 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 Other Education Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Other Education in New Jersey
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for other education students seeking a a master's degree.
Top New Jersey Schools for a Master's in Other Education
Any student who is interested in a master's degree in other education has to check out Ramapo College of New Jersey. Located in the large suburb of Mahwah, Ramapo College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.
Those other education students who get their master's degree from Ramapo College of New Jersey receive $2,387 more than the standard other education graduate.
College of Saint Elizabeth is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in other education. Located in the large suburb of Morristown, CSE is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the other education program make around $57,413 for their early career.
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).