2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in South Carolina

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

Across South Carolina, there were 65 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,605 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in South Carolina” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in teacher education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their teacher education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

Columbia International University
Columbia, South Carolina

#3 overall quality in South Carolina

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia International University landed the #1 spot on the list. CIU is a small school located in Columbia, South Carolina that handed out 12 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full CIU Teacher Education Report

2

Winthrop University
Rock Hill, South Carolina

#11 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Winthrop University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in South Carolina. Located in Rock Hill, South Carolina, this medium-sized public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s teacher education students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Teacher Education at Winthrop University

3

Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina

#10 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coastal Carolina University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in South Carolina. This fairly large school is located in Conway, South Carolina, and it awarded 2 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Coastal Carolina University Teacher Education Report

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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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