2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Connecticut

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 “Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teacher Education is the 110th most popular major in the country with 8,205 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Connecticut, there were 13 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,793 and $40,407 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent teacher education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the teacher education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut master’s degree teacher education students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Connecticut

#1

Eastern Connecticut State University

Willimantic, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$27,040 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Connecticut State University landed the #1 spot on the list. ECSU is located in Willimantic, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 masters’s teacher education degrees to qualified students.

ECSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Teacher Education Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at ECSU are $27,040, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Teacher Education at ECSU

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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