2024 Best General Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
20Doctor's Degrees
General Special Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #102 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of general special education. Combined, these schools handed out 20 doctor's degrees in general special education to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Special Education School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of general special education for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general special education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general special education students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general special education related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general special education students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study General Special Education in the Plains States Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in general special education.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Doctorate in Teaching Students with Disabilities
Rankings in Majors Related to Teaching Students with Disabilities
General Special Education is one of 17 different types of Special Education programs to choose from.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).