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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in Tennessee” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Tennessee, there were 421 teacher education subject specific graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,785 and $27,860 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 teacher education subject specific graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,511 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in Tennessee” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Tennessee

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

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

1

Southern Adventist University
Collegedale, Tennessee

#7 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Adventist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in Tennessee list. Located in Collegedale, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s subject specific ed students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Teacher Education Subject Specific at Southern Adventist

2

Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

#12 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Subject Specific Ed Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Middle Tennessee State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Middle Tennessee State University is a public institution located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Teacher Education Subject Specific at Middle Tennessee State University

• 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.