2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 33,249 people earned their degree in special education, making the major the 39th most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 5,694 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,272 and $28,288 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in special education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great special education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the special education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree special ed students.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in the Southeast Region

#1

Florida State College at Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$3,916 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida State College at Jacksonville. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s special ed degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

FSCJ did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend FSCJ is $3,916 for southeast region associate degree special ed students.

Read full report on Special Education at FSCJ

#2

Miami Dade College

Miami, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$4,842 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Miami Dade College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Miami Dade College is a large school located in Miami, Florida that handed out 7 associates’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

MDC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend MDC is $4,842 for southeast region associate degree special ed students.

Read more about Special Education at MDC

#3

St Petersburg College

Clearwater, Florida

#3 in overall quality

$3,226 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St Petersburg College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Special Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. St Petersburg College is a large school located in Clearwater, Florida that handed out 2 associates’s special ed degrees in 2019-2020.

SPC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Special Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $3,226 for southeast region associate degree special ed students per year to attend St Petersburg College.

Read more about Special Education at SPC

• 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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