by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,296 people earned their degree in other special education & teaching, making the major the 418th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 161 other special education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 87 other special education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,415 and $23,858 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 9 colleges that offered a degree in other special education & teaching. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other special education & teaching program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree other special ed students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carthage College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s other special ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College landed the #2 spot on the list. SMWC is a small school located in Saint Mary of the Woods, Indiana that handed out 5 bachelors’s other special ed degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.
Read full report on Other Special Education & Teaching at SMWC
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Walsh University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in North Canton, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other special ed 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%.
Read full report on Other Special Education & Teaching at Walsh
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Indiana. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Evansville, Indiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 16 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other special ed students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Special Education & Teaching at University of Southern Indiana
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Marian University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other special ed students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Special Education & Teaching at Marian
Shawnee State University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Shawnee State University is a small public school situated in Portsmouth, Ohio. It awarded 6 bachelors’s other special ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Other Special Education & Teaching at Shawnee State University
With a ranking of #7, University of Dayton did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region list. UDayton is a fairly large school located in Dayton, Ohio that handed out 13 bachelors’s other special ed degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%.
Full University of Dayton Other Special Education & Teaching Report
Purdue University - Main Campus ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region list. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s other special ed degrees to 21 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Special Education & Teaching at Purdue University - Main Campus
Concordia University, Ann Arbor landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Concordia University, Ann Arbor is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s other special ed degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Other Special Education & Teaching at Concordia University, Ann Arbor
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