2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Education in Montana

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In 2020-2021, 327,871 education students received their degree, making the major the 4th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $46,202 and had an average of $24,437 in loans still to pay off.

Across Montana, there were 983 education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,769 and $24,854 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 education graduates with average earnings and debt of $83,529 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Education Major in Montana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in education.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Education Major in Montana

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Education Major in Montana”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Education in Montana

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The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

#2 overall quality in Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Education Major in Montana list. This fairly large school is located in Missoula, Montana, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

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Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

#1 overall quality in Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Education Major in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Montana State University is a fairly large school located in Bozeman, Montana that handed out 8 doctorate’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Education at Montana State University

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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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