2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Wisconsin

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s” 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 Wisconsin, there were 55 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,134 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education. To top this list, a school must have a successful teacher education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Wisconsin

1

Mount Mary University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#10 overall quality in Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Mary University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s list. Mount Mary University is a small school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 11 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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2

Wisconsin Lutheran College
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#18 overall quality in Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wisconsin Lutheran College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s list. WLC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 1 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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3

Cardinal Stritch University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cardinal Stritch University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Wisconsin for a Master’s list. Cardinal Stritch is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s teacher education degrees to qualified students.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education

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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