2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education Subject Specific in the Rocky Mountains Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teacher Education Subject Specific is the 22nd most popular major in the country with 43,297 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, teacher education subject specific graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,245 and had an average of $24,696 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 3,331 teacher education subject specific graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,754 and $21,942 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 teacher education subject specific graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in teacher education subject specific. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their teacher education subject specific program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region doctor’s degree subject specific ed students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education Subject Specific in the Rocky Mountains Region

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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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Provo, Utah, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 193 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s subject specific ed students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Idaho State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Idaho State University is located in Pocatello, Idaho and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 57 doctorate’s subject specific ed degrees to qualified students.

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• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education Subject Specific

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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