2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 10 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 $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 2 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, Colorado

#22 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Colorado landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Greeley, Colorado, this fairly large public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s other education students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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 full report on Other Education at University of Northern Colorado

2

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#3 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #2 spot on the list. BYU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Provo, Utah. It awarded 0 masters’s other education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Other Education at BYU

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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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