2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Special Education is the 39th most popular major in the country with 33,249 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Montana, there were 25 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,286 and $23,603 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in special education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality special education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the special education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Special Education (Income $48-$75k) in Montana

#1

Montana State University - Billings

Billings, Montana

#2 in overall quality

$14,839 Average Net Price

$30,771 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University - Billings. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana For Those Making $48-$75k list. Montana State University - Billings is a small public school situated in Billings, Montana. It awarded 8 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Montana State University - Billings also took the #2 spot in our “Best Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. It costs about $14,839 for Montana Bachelor’s Degree Special Ed students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Montana State University - Billings.

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#2

University of Providence

Great Falls, Montana

#1 in overall quality

$21,606 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Providence landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Providence is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Great Falls, Montana. It awarded 1 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Providence also took the #1 spot in our “Best Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Providence is $21,606 for Montana Bachelor’s Degree Special Ed students whose families make $48-$75k.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Special Education (Income $48-$75k) in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Special Education (Income $48-$75k)

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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