If you pursue a master's degree in curriculum & instruction, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #13 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 47 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for curriculum & instruction students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,500 master's degrees in curriculum & instruction during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Curriculum & Instruction School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of curriculum & instruction for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on curriculum & instruction students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of curriculum & instruction students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt curriculum & instruction students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized curriculum & instruction related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for curriculum & instruction students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Curriculum & Instruction Schools
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 Curriculum & Instruction Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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It's hard to beat University of Florida if you want to pursue a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. UF is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Gainesville.
Master's recipients from the curriculum & instruction program at University of Florida earn $5,370 above the typical college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
George Mason University is a wonderful option for students interested in a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. Located in the suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Curriculum & Instruction master's degree recipients from George Mason University earn a boost of about $6,995 over the typical income of curriculum & instruction graduates.
Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in curriculum & instruction needs to look into Florida State University. Florida State is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Tallahassee.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the curriculum program earn about $50,839 in their early career salary.
Located in the suburb of Mount Berry, Berry is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Curriculum & Instruction master's degree recipients from Berry College earn a boost of about $14,971 above the typical income of curriculum & instruction majors.
Located in the large city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's recipients from the curriculum & instruction program at North Carolina State University make $2,138 above the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Located in the large suburb of Miami, FIU is a public university with a very large student population.
Those curriculum & instruction students who get their master's degree from Florida International University receive $7,610 more than the average curriculum graduate.
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Honorable Mentions
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Curriculum & Instruction Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of curriculum & instruction for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
