2022 Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 a Bachelor’s in Alaska” 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 Alaska, there were 61 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,942 and $21,197 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality special education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the special education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree special ed students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Special Education in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Southeast

Juneau, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$11,787 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Southeast landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Alaska Southeast is located in Juneau, Alaska and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s special ed degrees to qualified students.

UAS also made our “Best Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend UAS is $11,787 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree Special Ed students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Special Education at University of Alaska Southeast

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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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