2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Indiana

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Indiana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Teacher Education is the 97th most popular major in the country with 9,949 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Indiana, there were 228 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 226 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,681 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Indiana” ranking, we looked at 3 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Indiana

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Indiana”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Indiana

1

Marian University
Indianapolis, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Indiana list. This small school is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and it awarded 87 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.

Read full report on Teacher Education at Marian

2

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

#1 overall quality in Indiana

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Indiana that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Notre Dame landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Notre Dame, Indiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 85 degrees to qualified masters’s teacher education students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Teacher Education at University of Notre Dame

3

Purdue University Global
Indianapolis, Indiana

#12 overall quality in Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University Global. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Indiana list. Purdue University Global is a large public school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 54 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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