Best Special Education Doctor’s Degree Colleges in California

Unfortunately, there were no schools in California that made our Best Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools in California list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Special Education School for Your Doctor's Degree

The special ed doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to special education students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of special education students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for special education to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized special education related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for special education students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for California

Sadly , we did not have sufficient info to make a ranking of the top quality colleges for special education in California. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in California that both offer special education and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Special Education rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Special Education ranking.

Best Special Education Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Special Education Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	122	10
Oregon	107	3
Nevada	84	5

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Rankings in Majors Related to Special Ed

One of 14 majors within the Education area of study, Special Education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Special Ed Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Special Education	9

Majors Similar to Special Ed

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Educational Administration	1,036
General Education	527
Other Education	32
Multilingual Education	21
Educational Assessment	18
Teacher Education Grade Specific	10
Instructional Media Design	7
Education Philosophy	6
Curriculum & Instruction	5
Teaching English or French	3

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to woodleywonderworks. More about our data sources and methodologies.