Educational Assessment isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #138 in popularity out of 343 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Educational Assessment Master's Degree Schools in Alabama ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 36 master's degrees in educational assessment to qualified students.
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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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to educational assessment students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of educational assessment students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 educational assessment 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 educational assessment related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for educational assessment 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 Educational Assessment Master's Degree Schools in Alabama list to help you make the college decision.
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It is difficult to beat University of Alabama at Birmingham if you want to pursue a master's degree in educational assessment. Located in the midsize city of Birmingham, UAB is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the assessment program earn an average of $58,223 for their early career.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
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