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Most Popular Schools for Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the principles and practice of teaching English to students who are not proficient in English or who do not speak, read or write English, and that may prepare individuals to function as teachers and administrators in such programs.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Western Governors University 225 1% $6,870
2 Grand Canyon University 217 1% $32,100
3 Alliant International University-San Diego 217 23% $16,520
4 CUNY Hunter College 146 3% $22,379
5 Hamline University 126 9% $53,538
6 University of Southern California 94 1% $74,825
7 Touro College 92 2% $37,436
8 CUNY City College 85 3% $29,967
9 St John's University-New York 82 2% $61,408
10 Georgia State University 78 1% $26,014
11 Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana 75 12% N/A
12 New York University 69 0% $73,566
13 Concordia University-Nebraska 68 9% $44,110
14 Southern New Hampshire University 68 0% $51,538
15 University of Alabama at Birmingham 67 1% $26,336
16 CUNY Queens College 66 2% $28,907
17 University of Pennsylvania 65 1% $74,408
18 Regent University 64 4% $29,763
19 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 61 1% $27,898
20 Olivet Nazarene University 53 3% $47,670
21 Kent State University at Kent 52 1% $25,886
22 College of Lake County 50 2% $5,124
23 Framingham State University 48 3% $27,510
24 Arkansas Tech University 46 1% $18,785
25 George Mason University 44 0% $30,284
26 University of Hawaii at Manoa 44 1% $29,858
27 Greensboro College 43 25% $42,440
28 Arizona State University-Tempe 41 0% $28,048
29 Niagara University 41 3% $49,830
30 Western Washington University 41 1% $24,077
31 Teachers College at Columbia University 41 2% N/A
32 University of Rochester 38 1% $72,721
33 Concordia University-Chicago 36 2% $44,426
34 University of San Francisco 36 1% $68,296
35 Portland State University 35 1% $26,085
36 The College of New Jersey 35 2% $34,992
37 Long Island University 35 1% $56,283
38 Carson-Newman University 35 5% $41,320
39 State University of New York at New Paltz 35 2% $25,641
40 The University of Texas at San Antonio 35 1% $23,715
41 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Gurabo Campus 35 1% $7,520
42 Newman University 34 7% $43,988
43 Canisius College 33 3% $42,288
44 University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 33 1% $19,876
45 SIT Graduate Institute 33 20% N/A
46 Saint Cloud State University 32 1% $20,991
47 Eastern Washington University 32 1% $23,011
48 University of Northern Iowa 32 1% $20,934
49 Cambridge College 32 4% $17,088
50 Cornerstone University 32 5% $36,772
51 Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey 31 8% N/A
52 University of Utah 31 0% $24,472
53 Miami University-Oxford 30 1% $33,229
54 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 30 1% $28,058
55 Azusa Pacific University 30 1% $54,144
56 University at Buffalo 29 0% $27,758
57 Mercy College 29 1% $38,200
58 Southeast Missouri State University 28 1% $21,570
59 Boston University 27 0% $72,618
60 Wheaton College 27 4% $49,300
61 Adelphi University 27 1% $58,430
62 Hawaii Pacific University 27 3% $44,414
63 Sam Houston State University 26 1% $22,478
64 California State University-Fullerton 26 0% $27,738
65 University of Southern Maine 25 2% $22,968
66 College of Staten Island CUNY 25 1% $32,394
67 Boricua College 25 12% $11,425
68 Vanderbilt University 25 1% $70,146
69 Wright State University-Main Campus 24 1% $25,116
70 SUNY Cortland 24 1% $25,220
71 Brigham Young University-Hawaii 23 3% $19,054
72 Murray State University 22 1% $23,472
73 Stony Brook University 22 0% $26,091
74 University of San Diego 22 1% $67,498
75 Liberty University 22 0% $40,075
76 Learnet Academy Inc 22 17% N/A
77 Central Connecticut State University 21 1% $25,869
78 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 21 0% $22,639
79 Madonna University 21 2% $35,670
80 Northeastern Illinois University 21 1% $31,531
81 Webster University 20 0% $45,762
82 Hofstra University 20 1% $63,748
83 George Washington University 20 0% $71,930
84 Rhode Island College 19 1% $23,398
85 Concordia University-Portland 19 1% $44,078
86 West Chester University of Pennsylvania 18 0% $27,074
87 Seattle University 18 1% $61,608
88 University of Wisconsin-Madison 18 0% $26,025
89 Molloy College 18 1% $51,856
90 Northern Arizona University 18 0% $27,266
91 Saint Mary's University of Minnesota 18 1% $47,290
92 The New School 18 1% $71,361
93 San Jose State University 17 0% $29,193
94 Florida Atlantic University 17 0% $24,235
95 University of Wisconsin-River Falls 17 1% $17,937
96 Capella University 17 0% $15,011
97 Ohio Dominican University 17 4% $45,220
98 Southeastern University 17 2% $39,702
99 SUNY at Albany 16 0% $26,734
100 Nazareth College 16 2% $50,235

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.