2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 33,249 people earned their degree in special education, making the major the 39th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, special education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,879 and had an average of $28,500 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 317 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,500 and $34,061 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent special education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education (Income $30-$48k) in Oregon

#1

Chemeketa Community College

Salem, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$5,417 Average Net Price

$33,993 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Chemeketa Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Oregon For Those Making $30-$48k. Salem, Oregon is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s special ed degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Chemeketa Community College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” list. It costs about $5,417 for Oregon Associate Degree Special Ed students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Chemeketa Community College.

Read full report on Special Education at Chemeketa Community College

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education (Income $30-$48k)

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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