2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching English or French in Connecticut

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English or French Major in Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teaching English or French is the 140th most popular major in the country with 5,791 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, teaching English or French graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $46,917 and had an average of $20,920 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 59 teaching English or French graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 teaching English or French graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English or French Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in teaching English or French. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in teaching English or French.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English or French Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut master’s degree english or french students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Teaching English or French in Connecticut

1

University of Saint Joseph
West Hartford, Connecticut

#14 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English or French Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Saint Joseph landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Saint Joseph is a private not-for-profit institution located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The school has a small population, and it awarded 37 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full University of Saint Joseph Teaching English or French Report

2

Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut

#10 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Connecticut State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English or French Major in Connecticut list. New Britain, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s English or French degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.

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3

Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

#3 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fairfield University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English or French Major in Connecticut. Fairfield University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Fairfield, Connecticut. It awarded 6 masters’s English or French degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.

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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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