2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in the Southwest Region

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General Special Education is the 36th most popular major in the country with 24,497 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 5,262 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general special education. That schools that top this list have a program in general special education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree teaching students with disabilities students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Special Education in the Southwest Region

1

Frank Phillips College
Borger, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Frank Phillips College landed the #1 spot on the list. FPC is a small school located in Borger, Texas that handed out 1 associates’s teaching students with disabilities degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Special Education at Frank Phillips College

2

San Juan College
Farmington, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Juan College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Farmington, New Mexico, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s teaching students with disabilities students in 2020-2021.

Full SJC General Special Education Report

• Most Focused 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

• *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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