2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Education of the Deaf in the Great Lakes Region

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Education of the Deaf is the 790th most popular major in the country with 363 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 93 education of the deaf graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 education of the deaf graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in education of the deaf. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in education of the deaf.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Education of the Deaf in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in Muncie, Indiana, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s deaf education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Education of the Deaf at Ball State

2

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Eastern Michigan University is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s deaf education degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Education of the Deaf at Eastern Michigan

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Education of the Deaf

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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