Education

Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education

University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$33,406Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded2Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Master's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$45,507
Same subject · national$51,482
Education · national$48,139

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · master's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $44,004–$47,015.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Master's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityEducation, General, Special Education and Teaching, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas$46,688
Western Washington UniversityTeacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas$40,584
Colorado State University-Fort CollinsEducational Administration and Supervision$44,147
Colorado State University GlobalEducational Administration and Supervision$43,575
Grand Valley State UniversityCurriculum and Instruction, Education, General, Educational Administration and Supervision, Special Education and Teaching$46,868
George Mason UniversityCurriculum and Instruction, Educational Administration and Supervision, Special Education and Teaching, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas$56,828
University of KansasCurriculum and Instruction, Special Education and Teaching, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas$44,356
California State University-ChicoSpecial Education and Teaching, Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language$40,261
East Carolina UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision, Special Education and Teaching, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas$44,872
Iowa State UniversityEducation, General$47,455
Illinois State UniversityCurriculum and Instruction, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas$46,142
Northern Arizona UniversityBilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education, Educational Administration and Supervision, Special Education and Teaching, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas$48,326
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗