2024 Best General Special Education Schools in Connecticut
8Colleges in Connecticut
377Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in general special education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #36 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 8 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of general special education. Combined, these schools handed out 377 degrees in general special education to qualified students.
Your choice of general special education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general special education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The teaching students with disabilities school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Special Education Schools in Connecticut.
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Best Schools for General Special Education in Connecticut
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the teaching students with disabilities degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Connecticut Schools in Teaching Students with Disabilities
62Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
University of Connecticut is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general special education. Located in the large suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #86 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were approximately 62 general special education students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent year we have data available.
54Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
It is difficult to beat University of Saint Joseph if you want to pursue a degree in general special education. USJ is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of West Hartford. This university ranks 10th out of 28 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were roughly 54 general special education students who graduated with this degree at USJ in the most recent data year.
Fairfield University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general special education. Fairfield U is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Fairfield. A Best Colleges rank of #163 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Fairfield U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 13 general special education students who graduated with this degree at Fairfield U in the most recent year we have data available.
97Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
Any student pursuing a degree in general special education needs to take a look at Southern Connecticut State University. SCSU is a moderately-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of New Haven. This university ranks 12th out of 28 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 97 general special education students who graduated with this degree at SCSU in the most recent year we have data available.
39Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
Located in the suburb of New Britain, CCSU is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #678 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means CCSU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 39 general special education students who graduated with this degree at CCSU in the most recent data year.
61Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
UHart is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of West Hartford. This university ranks 11th out of 28 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 61 general special education students who graduated with this degree at UHart in the most recent year we have data available.
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Located in the large suburb of Hamden, Quinnipiac is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #488 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Quinnipiac is a great university overall.
There were roughly 42 general special education students who graduated with this degree at Quinnipiac in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small city of Danbury, WestConn is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 22nd out of 28 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were roughly 8 general special education students who graduated with this degree at WestConn in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of general special education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general special education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
