2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the New England Region
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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 the New England region, there were 589 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 284 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 24 colleges that offered a degree in secondary education. That schools that top this list have a program in secondary education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree secondary teaching students.
Top 24 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the New England Region
Out of the 24 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Nazarene College landed the #1 spot on the list. Quincy, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s secondary teaching degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Secondary Education at Eastern Nazarene College
Out of the 24 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, American International College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 41 degrees to qualified masters’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Secondary Education at American International College
Out of the 24 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Bridgeport landed the #3 spot on the list. UBridgeport is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The school has a small population, and it awarded 52 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Full University of Bridgeport Secondary Education Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Connecticut State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Willimantic, Connecticut, and it awarded 19 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
Full ECSU Secondary Education Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Saint Joseph. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region list. University of Saint Joseph is located in West Hartford, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 masters’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Secondary Education at University of Saint Joseph
Worcester State University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. This medium-sized school is located in Worcester, Massachusetts, and it awarded 19 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Secondary Education at Worcester State University
University of New Hampshire - Main Campus came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s secondary teaching degrees to 47 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 Secondary Education at UNH
Framingham State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking, coming in at #8. This small school is located in Framingham, Massachusetts, and it awarded 12 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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 Secondary Education at Framingham State University
With a ranking of #9, Fairfield University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region list. Located in Fairfield, Connecticut, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 14 degrees to qualified masters’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Fairfield University Secondary Education Report
Emmanuel College Massachusetts landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s secondary teaching degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Secondary Education at Emmanuel Boston
Providence College came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. Providence College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Secondary Education at Providence
With a ranking of #12, Endicott College did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region list. Endicott is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Beverly, Massachusetts. It awarded 8 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Endicott College Secondary Education Report
Springfield College came in at #13 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. This small school is located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and it awarded 5 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Springfield College Secondary Education Report
Brandeis University ranked #14 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region list. Brandeis is a medium-sized school located in Waltham, Massachusetts that handed out 12 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Brandeis University Secondary Education Report
University of Maine ranked #15 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region list. UMaine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.
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 Secondary Education at UMaine
Smith College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking, coming in at #16. Smith is a private not-for-profit institution located in Northampton, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Smith Secondary Education Report
Lesley University landed the #17 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. Lesley University is a small school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 3 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Secondary Education at Lesley University
Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network landed the #18 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network is a fairly large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 5 masters’s secondary teaching degrees 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%.
Read full report on Secondary Education at Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network
Rhode Island College came in at #19 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. RIC is a medium-sized public school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 1 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
Full RIC Secondary Education Report
Simmons University landed the #20 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s secondary teaching degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full Simmons University Secondary Education Report
With a ranking of #21, Rivier University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region list. Located in Nashua, New Hampshire, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Secondary Education at Rivier University
With a ranking of #21, Salem State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region list. Salem State University is a public institution located in Salem, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Salem State Secondary Education Report
With a ranking of #21, Plymouth State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and it awarded 0 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Secondary Education at Plymouth State University
Westfield State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the New England Region ranking, coming in at #21. Located in Westfield, Massachusetts, this medium-sized public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Secondary Education at Westfield
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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
- *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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