2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in Connecticut

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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 Connecticut, there were 53 other education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 other education graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in Connecticut” 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 Connecticut

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in Connecticut

1

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

#17 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in Connecticut list. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other education degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Other Education at Southern Connecticut State University

2

Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

#3 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Fairfield University landed the #2 spot on the list. Fairfield, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s other education degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Fairfield 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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