2025 Best General Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools
3Colleges in the United States
201Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in general special education, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #102 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general special education students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 201 doctor's degrees in general special education during the <nil> academic year.
Choosing a Great General Special Education School for Your Doctor's Degree
The teaching students with disabilities doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality teaching students with disabilities program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general special education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general special education students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general special education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general special education students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Special Education Schools
The teaching students with disabilities school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study General Special Education in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in general special education.
Top Schools for a Doctorate in Teaching Students with Disabilities
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).