2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 2,751 people earned their degree in teaching assistants, making the major the 244th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, teaching assistants graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $19,238 and had an average of $10,167 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 teaching assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in teaching assistants. That schools that top this list have a program in teaching assistants in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major”.

Top 5 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants

1

Robert Morris University
Moon Township, Pennsylvania

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Robert Morris University landed the #1 spot on the list. Robert Morris University is a small school located in Moon Township, Pennsylvania that handed out 4 masters’s teaching assistants degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.

Full Robert Morris University Teaching Assistants Report

2

Madonna University
Livonia, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Madonna University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major list. Madonna University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Livonia, Michigan. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Madonna Teaching Assistants Report

3

University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, Nevada

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Reno landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Nevada - Reno is a public institution located in Reno, Nevada. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s 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%.

Full UNR Teaching Assistants Report

4

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

Top 20% overall quality in United States

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Washington State University is a large school located in Pullman, Washington that handed out 0 masters’s teaching assistants degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Teaching Assistants at Wazzu

4

Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Idaho State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major list. Idaho State University is located in Pocatello, Idaho and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s teaching assistants degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Teaching Assistants at ISU

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.

Credits

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