2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Reading Teacher Education in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2020-2021, 6,490 people earned their degree in reading teacher education, making the major the 129th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,311 reading teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 reading teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in reading teacher education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in reading teacher education.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree reading teacher education students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Reading Teacher Education in the Great Lakes Region

1

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s reading teacher education students in 2020-2021.

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2

University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Dearborn. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Michigan - Dearborn is a medium-sized school located in Dearborn, Michigan that handed out 2 bachelors’s reading teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Reading Teacher Education at UM Dearborn

3

Aquinas College Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Aquinas College Michigan. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region. Grand Rapids, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s reading teacher education degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Aquinas College Michigan Reading Teacher Education Report

3

Otterbein University
Westerville, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Otterbein University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Westerville, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s reading teacher education students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Reading Teacher Education at Otterbein University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Reading Teacher 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.

Credits

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