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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 North Dakota, there were 220 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,000 and $26,621 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,663 and $15,449 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.

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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

Minot State University

Minot, North Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$11,898 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minot State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid list. This small school is located in Minot, North Dakota, and it awarded 2 associates’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU also made our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in North Dakota” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $11,898 for north dakota associate degree special ed students with aid per year to attend MSU.

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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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