2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Elementary Special Education is the 326th most popular major in the country with 1,665 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 98 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 79 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in elementary special education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their elementary special education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree elementary special ed students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Merrimack College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the New England Region. Merrimack College is a private not-for-profit institution located in North Andover, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 69 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Merrimack College Elementary Special Education Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New England College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Henniker, New Hampshire, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s elementary special ed students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full New England College Elementary Special Education Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Simmons University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the New England Region list. Simmons University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Read more about Elementary Special Education at Simmons University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rivier University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the New England Region list. Rivier University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashua, New Hampshire. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Rivier University Elementary Special Education Report
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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