2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Development & Methodology in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teacher Development & Methodology is the 156th most popular major in the country with 6,165 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,216 teacher development and methodology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 teacher development and methodology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in teacher development and methodology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in teacher development and methodology.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree teacher development & methodology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Development & Methodology in the Southeast Region

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s teacher development and methodology degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Teacher Development & Methodology at Vanderbilt

2

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Mason University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Development & Methodology Major in the Southeast Region. GMU is a public institution located in Fairfax, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Teacher Development & Methodology at George Mason University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Development & Methodology

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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