2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants in the Far Western US Region

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Teaching Assistants is the 244th most popular major in the country with 2,751 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 368 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 $61,693 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teaching assistants. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in teaching assistants.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree teaching assistants students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, Nevada

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Reno. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major in the Far Western US Region list. This large school is located in Reno, Nevada, and it awarded 6 masters’s teaching assistants 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%.

Read full report on Teaching Assistants at UNR

2

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Assistants Major in the Far Western US Region. Washington State University is a large school located in Pullman, Washington that handed out 0 masters’s teaching assistants degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Teaching Assistants at Wazzu

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants

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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