2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teaching Assistants is the 243rd most popular major in the country with 1,819 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, teaching assistants graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $20,850 and had an average of $7,654 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 8 teaching assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 teaching assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent teaching assistants programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the teaching assistants program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

#1

Idaho State University

Pocatello, Idaho

#1 in overall quality

$26,548 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Idaho State University landed the #1 spot on the list. ISU is a fairly large school located in Pocatello, Idaho that handed out 6 masters’s teaching assistants degrees in 2019-2020.

ISU also made our “Best Teaching Assistants Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Idaho State University are $26,548.

Read full report on Teaching Assistants at Idaho State University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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