2025 Best Education Master's Degree Schools in New Hampshire

If you pursue a master's degree in education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #2 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New Hampshire to determine which ones were the best for education students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 879 master's degrees in education to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Education School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of education for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality education program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college'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.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 education students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of education 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 easy is it for education 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 education related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for education students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Education Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Education Master's Degree Schools in New Hampshire list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Education in New Hampshire

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in education.

Top New Hampshire Schools for a Master's in Education

1

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

583 Annual Graduates

Southern New Hampshire University is a good option for individuals pursuing a master's degree in education. SNHU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized suburb of Manchester.More information about a master’s in education from Southern New Hampshire University

2

Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

69 Annual Graduates

Plymouth State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in education. Plymouth State is a small public university located in the town of Plymouth.More information about a master’s in education from Plymouth State University

3

Granite State College
Manchester, NH

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in education has to take a look at Granite State College. GSC is a small public college located in the midsize city of Manchester.More information about a master’s in education from Granite State College

Best Education Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Education Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	34	5,741
Rhode Island	32	381
Connecticut	30	1,554
Maine	27	480
Vermont	25	287

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Education Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Curriculum & Instruction	239
Educational Administration	198
Teacher Education Grade Specific	192
General Education	81
Teaching English or French	43
Special Education	36
Teacher Education Subject Specific	35
Student Counseling	27
Other Education	25
Instructional Media Design	3

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Horadrim. More about our data sources and methodologies.