2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for History Education in Virginia

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

Across Virginia, there were 45 history education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 history education graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in Virginia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in history education. That schools that top this list have a program in history education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in Virginia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for History Education in Virginia

1

Emory and Henry College
Emory, Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory and Henry College landed the #1 spot on the list. Emory & Henry College is a small school located in Emory, Virginia that handed out 1 masters’s history teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on History Education at Emory & Henry College

2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

#13 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on History Teacher Education Major in Virginia. This large school is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and it awarded 41 masters’s history teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Liberty University History Education Report

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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.

Credits

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