2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Oklahoma

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Oklahoma” 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 Oklahoma, there were 101 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,956 and $24,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 45 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,146 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Oklahoma” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in special education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in special education.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Oklahoma”.

Top 5 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Special Education in Oklahoma

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

#13 overall quality in Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Oklahoma. SWOSU is a small school located in Weatherford, Oklahoma that handed out 10 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Special Education at Southwestern Oklahoma State University

2

East Central University
Ada, Oklahoma

#20 overall quality in Oklahoma

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Oklahoma that were part of this year’s ranking, East Central University landed the #2 spot on the list. ECU is a small school located in Ada, Oklahoma that handed out 6 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Special Education at ECU

3

Northeastern State University
Tahlequah, Oklahoma

#14 overall quality in Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Oklahoma. NSU is a medium-sized school located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma that handed out 10 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Special Education at Northeastern State University

4

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

#8 overall quality in Oklahoma

$41,594 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Oklahoma that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s special ed students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Central Oklahoma Special Education Report

5

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#1 overall quality in Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Oklahoma list. University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is a large public school situated in Norman, Oklahoma. It awarded 13 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Read full report on Special Education at University of Oklahoma

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Special Education in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Special Education

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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