by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Utah” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Special Education is the 29th most popular major in the country with 35,973 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , special education graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $45,680 and had an average of $27,516 in loans still to pay off.
Across Utah, there were 1,160 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,794 and $15,049 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 191 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,224 and $30,243 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Utah” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in special education. That schools that top this list have a program in special education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Utah”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Governors University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Utah list. WGU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Salt Lake City, Utah. It awarded 139 masters’s special ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Utah list. University of Utah is a large school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 39 masters’s special ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Westminster College Utah landed the #3 spot on the list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s special ed degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Logan, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s special ed degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #5 spot on the list. BYU is located in Provo, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 masters’s special ed degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
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