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2023 Most Popular Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Nevada

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There are so many teaching programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Most Popular Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Nevada ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Nevada to see which ones were the most popular master's degree programs for teaching students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.

Learn more about these popular schools below:

#1

University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada
415 Total Awards
$6,607 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Nevada - Las Vegas the most popular school in Nevada for teaching students working on their master’s degree. This large public school is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it awarded 415 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 76% of those degree recipients were women.

Online graduate courses are available at UNLV, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 64% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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#2

Sierra Nevada College

Incline Village, Nevada
107 Total Awards
$19,165 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sierra Nevada College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Nevada list. Located in Incline Village, Nevada, the very small private not-for-profit school handed out 107 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 72% were women.

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94 Total Awards
$6,290 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Reno. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Nevada list. UNR is a public institution located in Reno, Nevada. The school has a large population, and it awarded 94 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 74% of those degree recipients were women.

You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at UNR. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 33% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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#4

Touro University Nevada

Henderson, Nevada
20 Total Awards
$48,888 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent master’s degree programs at Touro University Nevada helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular teaching schools in Nevada. Henderson, Nevada is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out master’s degrees to 20 students in 2020-2021.

Around 90% of those degree recipients were women.

Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out Touro University Nevada. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 4 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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