2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in Pennsylvania

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Pennsylvania, there were 1,872 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,151 and $27,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Pennsylvania” 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

1

Lehigh Carbon Community College
Schnecksville, Pennsylvania

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 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Pennsylvania. Lehigh Carbon Community College is a medium-sized school located in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania that handed out 6 associates’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Special Education at Lehigh Carbon Community College

2

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, Pennsylvania

Top 20% overall quality in Pennsylvania

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 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Pennsylvania. Edinboro is a small public school situated in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. It awarded 39 associates’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Special Education Report

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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

• *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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