Other Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #78 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Other Education Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 371 master's degrees in other education to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Other Education School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of other education for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality other education program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
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.
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 other education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of other education 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 much debt other education 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 other education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other education students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Other Education Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Drexel University is a wonderful option for students interested in a master's degree in other education. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in other education from Drexel University
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).