2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in the New England Region

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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 the New England region, there were 2,181 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,433 and $27,169 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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 the New England Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Special Education in the New England Region

1

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, Rhode Island

Top 25% overall quality in New England

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Community College of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. CCRI is located in Warwick, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 associates’s special ed degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Special Education at Community College of Rhode Island

2

Northern Vermont University
Johnson, Vermont

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Vermont University landed the #2 spot on the list. Northern Vermont University is a public institution located in Johnson, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Special Education at Northern Vermont University

3

Gateway Community College
New Haven, Connecticut

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Gateway Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Gateway Community College is a public institution located in New Haven, Connecticut. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Special Education at Gateway Community College

4

Nashua Community College
Nashua, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nashua Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in the New England Region list. Located in Nashua, New Hampshire, this small public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified associates’s special ed students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Special Education at Nashua Community College

• 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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