2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Elementary Special Education is the 326th most popular major in the country with 1,625 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 19 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in elementary special education. That schools that top this list have a program in elementary special education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the Southeast Region

1

William Peace University
Raleigh, North Carolina

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, William Peace University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s elementary special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Full WPU Elementary Special Education Report

2

Trinity Baptist College
Jacksonville, Florida

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity Baptist College landed the #2 spot on the list. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s elementary special ed degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Elementary Special Education at Trinity Baptist College

3

Shorter University
Rome, Georgia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Shorter University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Rome, Georgia, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s elementary special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Elementary Special Education at Shorter University

4

Lee University
Cleveland, Tennessee

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lee University landed the #4 spot on the list. Lee University is a small school located in Cleveland, Tennessee that handed out 0 bachelors’s elementary special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Elementary Special Education at Lee University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education

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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