2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Education in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other education. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in other education.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s”.

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

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University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, Colorado

#22 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Northern Colorado. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. This fairly large school is located in Greeley, Colorado, and it awarded 5 masters’s other education degrees 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%.

Full University of Northern Colorado Other Education Report

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Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#3 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. BYU is a large school located in Provo, Utah that handed out 0 masters’s other education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Education

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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