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2023 Best Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

3 Schools Ranked
$12,971 Avg Tuition & Fees*

With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Delaware to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for teaching students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Delaware State University

Dover, Delaware
11 Total Awards
$11,726 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Delaware State University to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Delaware. Del State is a public institution located in Dover, Delaware. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 11 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Del State graduate students pay an average of $11,726 in tuition and fees each year.

Del State does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 61% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Del State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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#2

Wilmington University

New Castle, Delaware
506 Total Awards
$9,060 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Wilmington University is a great place for teaching students working on their master’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. Located in New Castle, Delaware, the fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 506 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Wilmington University are $9,060 a year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Wilmington University does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 82% took at least some of their classes online.

Wilmington University not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

Full Wilmington University Report

#3

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware
98 Total Awards
$18,128 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Delaware that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Delaware landed the # 3 spot on the list. Newark, Delaware is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 98 students in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UD are $18,128 a year.

Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at UD. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 81% took at least some of their classes online.

UD did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

Full University of Delaware Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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