2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in South Carolina

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 South Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 43,297 people earned their degree in teacher education subject specific, making the major the 22nd most popular in the United States. 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 South Carolina, there were 596 teacher education subject specific graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,850 and $25,288 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 teacher education subject specific graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,770 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in South Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education subject specific. That schools that top this list have a program in teacher education subject specific in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in South Carolina”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education Subject Specific in South Carolina

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University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, South Carolina

#2 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in South Carolina. UofSC is located in Columbia, South Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 doctorate’s subject specific ed degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

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Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina

#1 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in South Carolina. Clemson University is a large school located in Clemson, South Carolina that handed out 191 doctorate’s subject specific ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education Subject Specific in the Southeast Region
• 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aparajita Datta.