2024 Best Social Studies Education Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
13Master's Degrees
a master's degree in social studies education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #233 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Social Studies Education Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 13 master's degrees in social studies education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Social Studies Education School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of social studies education for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to social studies education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of social studies education students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social studies education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for social studies education students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Social Studies Education Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Social Studies Education in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in social studies education.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Social Studies Teacher Education
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).