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2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
12 Degrees Awarded
$12,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Minnesota, there were 734 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,178 and $29,087 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,738 and $20,226 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality special education programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota associate degree special ed students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in Minnesota (With Aid)

#1

Normandale Community College

Bloomington, Minnesota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Normandale Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid list. This medium-sized school is located in Bloomington, Minnesota, and it awarded 1 associates’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Normandale Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota” list. The yearly cost to attend Normandale Community College is $12,620 for minnesota associate degree special ed students with aid.

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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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