2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region
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In 2021-2022, 1,665 people earned their degree in elementary special education, making the major the 326th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 13 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in elementary special education. That schools that top this list have a program in elementary special education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree elementary special ed students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Welch College landed the #1 spot on the list. Welch College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Gallatin, Tennessee. It awarded 1 masters’s elementary special ed degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Elementary Special Education at Welch College
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Xavier University of Louisiana landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s elementary special ed students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Elementary Special Education at Xavier University of Louisiana
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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%.
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- *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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