2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in Michigan

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Michigan” ranking.

Special Education is the 29th most popular major in the country with 36,792 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, special education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,679 and had an average of $24,977 in loans still to pay off.

Across Michigan, there were 609 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,967 and $30,413 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,608 and $18,344 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Michigan” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in special education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their special education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Michigan

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in Michigan

1

Henry Ford College
Dearborn, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Henry Ford College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Michigan. This fairly large school is located in Dearborn, Michigan, and it awarded 2 associates’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Special Education at Henry Ford College

2

Gogebic Community College
Ironwood, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gogebic Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Michigan. Located in Ironwood, Michigan, this small public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s special ed students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Special Education at Gogebic Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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