The main focus area for this major is General Special Education. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Special Education is a major offered under the education program of study at The University of Alabama. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in special ed, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
If there’s something special you’re looking for, you can use one of the links below to find it:
Out-of-state part-time graduates at UA paid an average of $1,550 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $615 per credit hour. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $10,780 | $30,250 |
Fees | $690 | $690 |
special ed who receive their master’s degree from UA make an average of $44,666 a year during the early days of their career. That is 8% lower than the national average of $48,410.
Online degrees for the UA special ed master’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UA Online Learning page.
All of the students who received their Master’s in special ed in 2019-2020 were women.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 12.5% of the special ed master’s degrees at UA in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 26%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 14 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Special Education students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Special Education | 16 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to special education.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Educational Administration | 33 |
Instructional Media Design | 7 |
Student Counseling | 4 |
Teacher Education Grade Specific | 74 |
Teacher Education Subject Specific | 21 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.