2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Elementary Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,422 people earned their degree in elementary special education, making the major the 367th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 10 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Elementary Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in elementary special education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent elementary special education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the elementary special education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Elementary Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Elementary Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree elementary special ed students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Shorter University

Rome, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$19,495 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Shorter University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Elementary Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Rome, Georgia, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s elementary special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Shorter also made our “Best Elementary Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $19,495 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Elementary Special Ed students with aid per year to attend Shorter University.

Read full report on Elementary Special Education at Shorter

#2

William Peace University

Raleigh, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$24,134 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend William Peace University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Elementary Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s elementary special ed degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

WPU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Elementary Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $24,134 for southeast region bachelor’s degree elementary special ed students with aid per year to attend WPU.

Read full report on Elementary Special Education at WPU

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education (With Aid)

Notes and References

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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