2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Montana

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Montana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 36,792 people earned their degree in special education, making the major the 29th most popular in the United States. 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 Montana, there were 22 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,050 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,324 and $24,992 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Montana” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Montana

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Montana”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Special Education in Montana

1

Montana State University - Billings
Billings, Montana

#8 overall quality in Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University - Billings. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Montana list. Billings, Montana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s special ed degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Special Education at Montana State University - Billings

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University of Providence
Great Falls, Montana

#4 overall quality in Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Providence. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Montana list. This small school is located in Great Falls, Montana, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Special Education at University of Providence

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Special Education in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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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