2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in District of Columbia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in District of Columbia” 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 District of Columbia, there were 33 other education graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,355 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 other education graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other education. That schools that top this list have a program in other education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia master’s degree other education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in District of Columbia

1

University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the District of Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. University of the District of Columbia is a small school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 11 masters’s other education degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Other Education at University of the District of Columbia

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George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

$49,355 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in District of Columbia list. GWU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 22 masters’s other education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full George Washington University 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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