by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Connecticut” 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 Connecticut, there were 414 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,001 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 86 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,551 and $25,342 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Connecticut” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Connecticut” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut bachelor’s degree special ed students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Connecticut list. This medium-sized school is located in New Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 41 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hartford. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Connecticut list. UHart is a medium-sized school located in West Hartford, Connecticut that handed out 24 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Saint Joseph. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Connecticut. University of Saint Joseph is a small private not-for-profit school situated in West Hartford, Connecticut. It awarded 4 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #4 spot on the list. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s special ed degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
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