2022 Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Special Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 22,244 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Illinois, there were 863 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general special education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general special education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general special education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Special Education (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$30,083 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s teaching students with disabilities students in 2019-2020.

UIUC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UIUC are $30,083, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Special Education at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#2

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$27,036 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Chicago. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k list. UIC is a large public school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 12 doctorate’s teaching students with disabilities degrees in 2019-2020.

UIC also made our “Best General Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Chicago are $27,036, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UIC General Special Education Report

#3

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinois

#3 in overall quality

$11,069 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Normal, Illinois, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s teaching students with disabilities students in 2019-2020.

Illinois State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois State are $11,069, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Special Education at Illinois State

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Special Education (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Special Education (Income $0-$30k)

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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