2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 19 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 elementary special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in elementary special education. To top this list, a school must have a successful elementary special education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Special Education in the Southeast Region

1

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Xavier University of Louisiana landed the #1 spot on the list. New Orleans, Louisiana 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 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Elementary Special Education at Xavier University of Louisiana

2

Welch College
Gallatin, Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Elementary Special Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Welch College landed the #2 spot on the list. Gallatin, Tennessee 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 2 students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Welch College Elementary Special Education Report

• Most Popular 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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