2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education Grade Specific in California

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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Grade Specific Ed Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 110,226 teacher education grade specific students received their degree, making the major the 6th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, teacher education grade specific graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,970 and had an average of $24,228 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 7,601 teacher education grade specific graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,370 and $24,254 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 teacher education grade specific graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,525 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Grade Specific Ed Major in California” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education grade specific. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their teacher education grade specific program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Grade Specific Ed Major in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california doctor’s degree grade specific ed students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education Grade Specific in California

1

University of California - Davis
Davis, California

#11 overall quality in California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Grade Specific Ed Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Davis, California, this large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s grade specific ed students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

#20 overall quality in California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of San Francisco. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Grade Specific Ed Major in California list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s grade specific ed degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.

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