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.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Curriculum & Instruction Master's Degree Schools in Nebraska ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 497 master's degrees in curriculum & instruction to qualified students.
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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 good 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 full 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
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Curriculum & Instruction Master's Degree Schools in Nebraska list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln is a great decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. Located in the city of Lincoln, UNL is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the curriculum program earn about $51,473 in the first couple years of working.
Concordia University, Nebraska is a great choice for individuals pursuing a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. Concordia University, Nebraska is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Seward.
Curriculum & Instruction master's degree recipients from Concordia University, Nebraska receive an earnings boost of about $2,914 over the average earnings of curriculum & instruction graduates.
Wayne State College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in curriculum & instruction. WSC is a small public college located in the town of Wayne.
Master's students who receive their degree from the curriculum program make an average of $53,346 for their early career.
Any student who is interested in a master's degree in curriculum & instruction has to look into University of Nebraska at Kearney. Located in the town of Kearney, UNK is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the curriculum program make around $54,750 in their early career salary.
Located in the town of Chadron, Chadron State College is a public college with a small student population.
Those curriculum & instruction students who get their master's degree from Chadron State College receive $5,737 more than the standard curriculum grad.
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.
