2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Special Education in Delaware

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Delaware” 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 Delaware, there were 165 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,605 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 155 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,559 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Delaware” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in special education. That schools that top this list have a program in special education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Delaware

The colleges and universities below are the best for delaware master’s degree special ed students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Special Education in Delaware

1

Wilmington University
New Castle, Delaware

#3 overall quality in Delaware

$52,219 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Delaware that were part of this year’s ranking, Wilmington University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in New Castle, Delaware, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 119 diplomas to qualified masters’s special ed students in 2020-2021.

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2

University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

#1 overall quality in Delaware

$50,991 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Delaware list. This large school is located in Newark, Delaware, and it awarded 36 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Special Education at University of Delaware

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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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