2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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History Education is the 470th most popular major in the country with 804 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 51 history education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 history education graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in history education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in history education.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree history teacher education students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for History Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Arcadia University
Glenside, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arcadia University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Arcadia University is a small school located in Glenside, Pennsylvania that handed out 2 masters’s history teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about History Education at Arcadia University

2

LIU Post
Brookville, New York

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, LIU Post landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Brookville, New York, and it awarded 0 masters’s history teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about History Education at LIU Post

2

Lehman College
Bronx, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lehman College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Lehman is a fairly large school located in Bronx, New York that handed out 5 masters’s history teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Lehman History Education Report

2

Colgate University
Hamilton, New York

#13 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colgate University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Hamilton, New York, and it awarded 0 masters’s history teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Colgate History Education Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for History 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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