by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi” ranking - to help you make that 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 Mississippi, there were 269 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,875 and $23,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 216 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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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 Mississippi” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi master’s degree special ed students.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, William Carey University landed the #1 spot on the list. William Carey University is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 85 masters’s special ed degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Special Education at William Carey University
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Clinton, Mississippi, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 59 degrees to qualified masters’s special ed students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Special Education at Mississippi College
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Delta State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Delta State University is located in Cleveland, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 masters’s special ed degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jackson State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi list. Jackson, Mississippi is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s special ed degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi. Mississippi State is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 38 masters’s special ed degrees 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.
University of Southern Mississippi landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi ranking. University of Southern Mississippi is a fairly large school located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi that handed out 17 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
Full University of Southern Mississippi Special Education Report
Mississippi Valley State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Mississippi ranking, coming in at #7. Mississippi Valley State University is a small school located in Itta Bena, Mississippi that handed out 0 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Special Education at Mississippi Valley State University
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