by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Virginia, there were 1,238 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,837 and $31,153 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 128 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 7 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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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 Virginia” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree special ed students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mary Baldwin University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia. This small school is located in Staunton, Virginia, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Union University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Richmond, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s special ed students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia. Located in Lynchburg, Virginia, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 113 degrees to qualified bachelors’s special ed students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Marymount University landed the #4 spot on the list. Marymount is a small school located in Arlington, Virginia that handed out 4 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend James Madison University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia list. JMU is a large school located in Harrisonburg, Virginia that handed out 3 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read full report on Special Education at James Madison University
Old Dominion University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia ranking. Norfolk, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s special ed degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
Bluefield College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Virginia ranking, coming in at #7. Bluefield College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bluefield, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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