2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 5,764 people earned their degree in teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor, making the major the 176th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,504 teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree teaching english as a second or foreign language/esl language instructor students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor in the Middle Atlantic Region

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New York University
New York, New York

#9 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New York University landed the #1 spot on the list. NYU is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 1 doctorate’s teaching English as a second or foreign language degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Teachers College at Columbia University
New York, New York

#15 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Teachers College at Columbia University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Teachers College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 44 doctorate’s teaching English as a second or foreign language degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

#6 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia University in the City of New York. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s teaching English as a second or foreign language degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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