2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Plains States Region

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 14 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in elementary special education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their elementary special education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree elementary special ed students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the Plains States Region

1

Buena Vista University
Storm Lake, Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Buena Vista University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Plains States Region. Storm Lake, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s elementary special ed degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Elementary Special Education at BVU

2

Upper Iowa University
Fayette, Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Upper Iowa University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Special Ed Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Fayette, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s elementary special ed students in 2020-2021.

Full Upper Iowa University Elementary Special Education Report

• Most Focused Master’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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