Best Special Education Doctor’s Degree Colleges in Illinois

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Illinois that made our Best Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality 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.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 schools for special education students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for Illinois

Because of missing data, we could not provide you with the special education quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Illinois that both offer special education and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, check out 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 Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Special Education Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	149	1
Ohio	144	3
Indiana	132	2
Wisconsin	108	3

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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

Most Popular Majors Related to Special Ed

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Educational Administration	333
Curriculum & Instruction	101
General Education	51
Teacher Education Subject Specific	28
Student Counseling	23
Other Education	17
Educational Assessment	12
Education Philosophy	6
Instructional Media Design	5
Teacher Education Grade Specific	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.