2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Southwest region, there were 147 other special education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 other special education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree other special ed students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

1

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region. UCO is a fairly large school located in Edmond, Oklahoma that handed out 6 bachelors’s other special ed degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UCO Other Special Education & Teaching Report

2

Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Durant, Oklahoma

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeastern Oklahoma State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southeastern Oklahoma State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Durant, Oklahoma. It awarded 0 bachelors’s other special ed degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 Southeastern Oklahoma State University

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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