2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Wisconsin

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In 2020-2021, 10,547 people earned their degree in secondary education, making the major the 84th most popular in the United States.

Across Wisconsin, there were 95 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,134 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Wisconsin” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in secondary education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in secondary education.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Wisconsin

The colleges and universities below are the best for wisconsin master’s degree secondary teaching students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Wisconsin

1

Wisconsin Lutheran College
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#18 overall quality in Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wisconsin Lutheran College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Wisconsin list. WLC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 4 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Secondary Education at Wisconsin Lutheran College

2

University of Wisconsin - River Falls
River Falls, Wisconsin

#5 overall quality in Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin - River Falls is a medium-sized public school situated in River Falls, Wisconsin. It awarded 17 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Secondary Education at UW - River Falls

3

Cardinal Stritch University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cardinal Stritch University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Wisconsin. Cardinal Stritch University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 5 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% 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 Secondary Education at Cardinal Stritch

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary 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.

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