by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Secondary Education is the 84th most popular major in the country with 10,547 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Connecticut, there were 120 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 96 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in secondary education. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in secondary education.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Connecticut for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Bridgeport. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Connecticut for a Master’s list. University of Bridgeport is a small school located in Bridgeport, Connecticut that handed out 52 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Connecticut State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Connecticut for a Master’s list. Eastern Connecticut State University is a small school located in Willimantic, Connecticut that handed out 19 masters’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fairfield University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Connecticut for a Master’s list. Fairfield, Connecticut 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 14 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Connecticut for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Saint Joseph landed the #4 spot on the list. USJ 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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