2023 Most Popular 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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Special Education & Teaching is the 418th most popular major in the country with 1,227 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 86 other special education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other special education and teaching. To top this list, a school must have a successful other special education and teaching program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Popular Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

1

University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas

$48,614 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,103 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St. Thomas landed the #1 spot on the list. UST is located in Houston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 47 ’s other special education and teaching degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UST Other Special Education & Teaching Report

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

$39,113 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,041 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school awarded 15 degrees to qualified ’s other special education and teaching students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Central Oklahoma Other Special Education & Teaching Report

3

Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Durant, Oklahoma

$43,234 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,788 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region list. Southeastern Oklahoma State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Durant, Oklahoma. It awarded 3 ’s other special education and teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Southeastern Oklahoma State University Other Special Education & Teaching Report

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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

• *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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