The main focus area for this major is Other Special Education & Teaching. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Special Education is a major offered under the education program of study at University of Central Oklahoma. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in special ed, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at UCO was ranked #472 on College Factual's Best Schools for special ed list. It is also ranked #5 in Oklahoma.
Here are some of the other rankings for UCO.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at UCO was $586 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $223 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $6,686 | $17,573 |
Fees | $1,131 | $1,131 |
Books and Supplies | $1,600 | $1,600 |
On Campus Room and Board | $8,292 | $8,292 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $7,200 | $7,200 |
Learn more about UCO tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at UCO in Special Ed walked away with an average of $24,750 in student debt. That is about the same as the national average of $24,724.
special ed who receive their bachelor’s degree from UCO make an average of $35,274 a year during the early days of their career. That is 3% lower than the national average of $36,194.
UCO does not offer an online option for its special ed bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UCO Online Learning page.
About 91.7% of the students who received their Bachelor’s in special ed in 2019-2020 were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 90.1%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in special ed at UCO in 2019-2020, 16.7% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 18%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 1 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 7 |
International Students | 3 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Special Education students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Other Special Education & Teaching | 12 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to special education.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Teacher Education Grade Specific | 106 |
Teacher Education Subject Specific | 79 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.