2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 9,949 people earned their degree in teacher education, making the major the 97th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,960 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in teacher education.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Southeast Region

1

Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kennesaw State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region list. Kennesaw State University is a large school located in Kennesaw, Georgia that handed out 11 doctorate’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

Full KSU Georgia Teacher Education Report

2

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region. Auburn University is a large public school situated in Auburn, Alabama. It awarded 9 doctorate’s teacher education 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 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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