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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Maine, there were 177 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 101 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Maine” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Maine

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Maine

1

University of New England
Biddeford, Maine

#5 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New England. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Maine. UNE is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Biddeford, Maine. It awarded 67 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#9 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Maine. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized school located in Portland, Maine that handed out 34 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Teacher Education at University of Southern Maine

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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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