2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Reading Teacher Education in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Reading Teacher Education is the 129th most popular major in the country with 6,490 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 366 reading teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 reading teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The reading teacher education school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the New England Region”.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Reading Teacher Education in the New England Region

1

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Massachusetts - Lowell is a fairly large school located in Lowell, Massachusetts that handed out 1 doctorate’s reading teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Massachusetts - Lowell Reading Teacher Education Report

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Reading Teacher Education Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Maine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 25 doctorate’s reading teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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 University of Maine

• Most Focused Doctor’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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