2023 Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in North Carolina for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 North Carolina 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 North Carolina, there were 38 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,453 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in North Carolina for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in teacher education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular teacher education programs in the United States.

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

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in North Carolina

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Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 overall quality in North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in North Carolina for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #1 spot on the list. Duke University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Durham, North Carolina. It awarded 14 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Teacher Education at Duke University

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Greensboro College
Greensboro, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Greensboro College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in North Carolina for a Master’s list. Greensboro College is a small school located in Greensboro, North Carolina that handed out 0 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Teacher Education at Greensboro College

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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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