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

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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 Minnesota, there were 22 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,734 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Minnesota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Minnesota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Minnesota

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

#17 overall quality in Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Mankato, Minnesota, and it awarded 7 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Secondary Education at Minnesota State University - Mankato

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University of St Thomas Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minnesota

#3 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of St Thomas Minnesota. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Minnesota. Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Read more about Secondary Education at University of St Thomas Minnesota

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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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