2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in Pennsylvania

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Pennsylvania, there were 1,767 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,161 and $29,629 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in special education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality special education programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for 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 Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania. Lehigh Carbon Community College is a medium-sized school located in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania that handed out 12 associates’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at LCCC, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Lehigh Carbon Community College is $7,117 for Pennsylvania Associate Degree Special Ed students.

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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 Special Ed Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania is a small school located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania that handed out 1 associates’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Edinboro also took the #1 spot in our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Edinboro is $16,833 for pennsylvania associate degree special ed students.

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