by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Vermont” 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 Vermont, there were 49 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,618 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,945 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Vermont” ranking, we looked at 3 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Vermont” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Vermont”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Vermont University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Vermont. Northern Vermont University is a small public school situated in Johnson, Vermont. It awarded 12 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Castleton University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Vermont list. Castleton, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s special ed degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Vermont. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Vermont. Located in Burlington, Vermont, this fairly large public school handed out 28 diplomas to qualified masters’s special ed students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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