2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Special Education is the 36th most popular major in the country with 23,838 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across District of Columbia, there were 47 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general special education. That schools that top this list have a program in general 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 Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Special Education in District of Columbia

1

Trinity Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#7 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trinity Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia list. Trinity Washington University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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 more about General Special Education at Trinity College

2

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia. George Washington University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 27 masters’s teaching students with disabilities degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia list. Howard is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on General Special Education at Howard

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Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s teaching students with disabilities students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Special Education at CUA

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

• *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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