2025 Best General Special Education Schools in Connecticut
4Colleges in Connecticut
399Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in general special education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #36 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for general special education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 399 degrees in general special education annually.
Your choice of general special education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general special education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in Connecticut.
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Best Schools for General Special Education in Connecticut
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the teaching students with disabilities degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Connecticut Schools in Teaching Students with Disabilities
53Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
University of Connecticut is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general special education. Located in the town of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #57 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were about 53 general special education students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year.
97Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
Every student who is interested in general special education needs to check out Southern Connecticut State University. SCSU is a medium-sized public university located in the midsize city of New Haven. A Best Colleges rank of #657 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means SCSU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 97 general special education students who graduated with this degree at SCSU in the most recent year we have data available.
77Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
University of Hartford is a great choice for students interested in a degree in general special education. UHart is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of West Hartford. This university ranks 12th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 77 general special education students who graduated with this degree at UHart in the most recent year we have data available.
49Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
It is hard to beat Central Connecticut State University if you wish to pursue a degree in general special education. Located in the suburb of New Britain, CCSU is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 14th out of 18 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 49 general special education students who graduated with this degree at CCSU in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of general special education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general special education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
