2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the New England Region

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 Deaf Education Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Education of the Deaf is the 790th most popular major in the country with 363 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 11 education of the deaf graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 education of the deaf graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

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

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Education of the Deaf in the New England Region

1

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

#10 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the New England Region. This large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 10 masters’s deaf education degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Boston U Education of the Deaf Report

2

University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hartford. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the New England Region. University of Hartford is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in West Hartford, Connecticut. It awarded 0 masters’s deaf 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 Education of the Deaf at UHart

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Education of the Deaf

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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