Curriculum & Instruction is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #13 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Curriculum & Instruction Master's Degree Schools in Kentucky ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 262 master's degrees in curriculum & instruction to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to curriculum & instruction students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other curriculum & instruction students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for curriculum & instruction to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
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.
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 Kentucky list to help you make the college decision.
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University of the Cumberlands is a good option for students interested in a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. Cumberlands is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the remote town of Williamsburg.
Students who graduate with their master's from the curriculum program report average early career income of $45,609.
Every student who is interested in a master's degree in curriculum & instruction has to check out Campbellsville University. Located in the town of Campbellsville, Campbellsville University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Soon after graduating, curriculum master's recipients usually make an average of $45,256 in their early careers.
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).
