N/A N/A The most common degree awarded to students studying Higher Education & Administration is a masters degree.
Higher Education & Administration
N/A N/A The most common degree awarded to students studying Higher Education & Administration is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Higher Education & Administration and the types of students that study this field. Liberty University awards the most degrees in Higher Education & Administration in the US, but Humphreys University-Stockton and Modesto Campuses (115773) and University of Maine at Farmington have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Higher Education & Administration.
Tuition costs for Higher Education & Administration majors are, on average, $8,685 for in-state public colleges, and $36,504 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Higher Education & Administration programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (144 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (2,775 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Higher Education & Administration, is Public, 4-year or above (2,775 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Higher Education & Administration programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Liberty University has the most Higher Education & Administration degree recipients, with 256 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Higher Education & Administration.
Out of all institutions that offer Higher Education & Administration programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Humphreys University-Stockton and Modesto Campuses (115773) has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Higher Education & Administration, with 27%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Higher Education & Administration by year.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Education in the United States.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Higher Education & Administration are Masters Degree, Research Doctorate, and Postbaccalaureate Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Education are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Higher Education & Administration.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Higher Education & Administration for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Masters Degree recipients in Higher Education & Administration.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Europe that hold Education degrees (3.03 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (50,652 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Higher Education & Administration field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Higher Education & Administration majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Higher Education & Administration majors need more than the average amount of Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, and Management of Personnel Resources.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Higher Education & Administration majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Management of Financial Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, and Active Listening are the three most important skills for people in the field.