2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Special Education in Pennsylvania

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Special Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 22,244 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 1,334 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general special education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general special education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general special education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Special Education in Pennsylvania

#1

Lehigh Carbon Community College

Schnecksville, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$7,117 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lehigh Carbon Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania. This medium-sized school is located in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 12 associates’s teaching students with disabilities degrees in 2019-2020.

LCCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Special Education Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $7,117 for Pennsylvania Associate Degree Teaching Students with Disabilities students per year to attend Lehigh Carbon Community College.

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#2

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Edinboro, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$16,833 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Teaching Students with Disabilities Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania. Edinboro is a small school located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania that handed out 1 associates’s teaching students with disabilities degrees in 2019-2020.

Edinboro also made our “Best General Special Education Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Edinboro University of Pennsylvania is $16,833 for pennsylvania associate degree teaching students with disabilities students.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Special Education in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General 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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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