2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Other Education is the 142nd most popular major in the country with 4,858 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, other education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,827 and had an average of $25,433 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 581 other education graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,949 and $24,875 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 other education graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in other education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other education.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree other education students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in the New England Region

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the New England Region list. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s other education degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Education at UNH

2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the New England Region list. UMass Amherst is a public institution located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Full University of Massachusetts Amherst Other Education Report

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University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the New England Region. University of Connecticut is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 1 doctorate’s other education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Connecticut Other 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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