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 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 Iowa” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Iowa, there were 180 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,893 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,980 and $30,839 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Iowa” 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 Iowa” list to help you make the college decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Iowa”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Upper Iowa University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Iowa list. Located in Fayette, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s special ed students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Morningside College landed the #2 spot on the list. Morningside is a small school located in Sioux City, Iowa that handed out 7 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Dordt University landed the #3 spot on the list. Dordt University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Sioux Center, Iowa. It awarded 3 bachelors’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Buena Vista University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Iowa. BVU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Storm Lake, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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