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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education (Income $75-$110k) in the Far Western US Region

1 Ranked Colleges
633 Degrees Awarded
$9,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Special Education is the 39th most popular major in the country with 33,249 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, special education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,879 and had an average of $28,500 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 3,388 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,100 and $31,392 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 633 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent special education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the special education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree special ed students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education (Income $75-$110k) in the Far Western US Region

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Chemeketa Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Chemeketa Community College is a medium-sized school located in Salem, Oregon that handed out 17 associates’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Chemeketa Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Chemeketa Community College is $8,950 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Special Ed students whose families make $75-$110k.

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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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