2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Technical Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Technical Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 462 people earned their degree in technical teacher education, making the major the 610th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 57 technical teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 technical teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Technical Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in technical teacher education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their technical teacher education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The technical 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Technical Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Technical Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree technical teacher education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Technical Teacher Education in the Plains States Region

1

Concordia University, Nebraska
Seward, Nebraska

Top 10% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Technical Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Concordia University, Nebraska landed the #1 spot on the list. Concordia University, Nebraska is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Seward, Nebraska. It awarded 20 masters’s technical teacher education degrees 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 Concordia University, Nebraska Technical Teacher Education Report

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Top 20% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Dakota. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Technical Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region. UND is a public institution located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 more about Technical Teacher Education at University of North Dakota

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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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