2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 363 people earned their degree in education of the deaf, making the major the 790th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 135 education of the deaf graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 education of the deaf graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in education of the deaf. That schools that top this list have a program in education of the deaf in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree deaf education students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Education of the Deaf in the Southeast Region

1

Flagler College - St Augustine
Saint Augustine, Florida

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Flagler College - St Augustine landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Augustine, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s deaf education degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Education of the Deaf at Flagler College - St Augustine

2

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Southeast Region list. Vanderbilt University is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 1 masters’s deaf education degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Vanderbilt Education of the Deaf Report

3

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Orleans. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Deaf Education Major in the Southeast Region. UNO is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s deaf education degrees to qualified students.

Full University of New Orleans Education of the Deaf 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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