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.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of educational assessment. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 57 master's degrees in educational assessment during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Educational Assessment School for Your Master's Degree
The assessment master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for educational assessment students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Educational Assessment Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a great choice for students interested in a master's degree in educational assessment. UNM is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Albuquerque.
Master's recipients from the educational assessment degree program at University of New Mexico - Main Campus make $9,638 more than the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
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).
The assessment master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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.
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