2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Special Education in Delaware

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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 Delaware, there were 155 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 155 general special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,559 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in Delaware” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general special education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general special education.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in Delaware

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in Delaware”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Special Education in Delaware

1

Wilmington University
New Castle, Delaware

#3 overall quality in Delaware

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wilmington University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in Delaware. Wilmington University is located in New Castle, Delaware and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 119 masters’s teaching students with disabilities degrees to qualified students.

Full Wilmington University General Special Education Report

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University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

#1 overall quality in Delaware

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Teaching Students with Disabilities Major in Delaware list. Newark, Delaware is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s teaching students with disabilities degrees to 36 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on General Special Education at UD

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Special Education in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’s 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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