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 “Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 South Carolina, there were 266 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,699 and $25,769 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 102 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,605 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 10 colleges that offered a degree in special education. To top this list, a school must have a successful special education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Francis Marion University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s. Francis Marion University is a small public school situated in Florence, South Carolina. It awarded 19 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Winthrop University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s list. Winthrop is located in Rock Hill, South Carolina and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 masters’s special ed degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Coastal Carolina University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s list. This fairly large school is located in Conway, South Carolina, and it awarded 16 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s. University of South Carolina - Columbia is a large public school situated in Columbia, South Carolina. It awarded 15 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Converse College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s list. This small school is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and it awarded 14 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
Furman University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s ranking. Located in Greenville, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 8 degrees to qualified masters’s special ed students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Clemson University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s ranking. This large school is located in Clemson, South Carolina, and it awarded 8 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of South Carolina - Upstate did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #8. University of South Carolina - Upstate is a medium-sized school located in Spartanburg, South Carolina that handed out 5 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
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With a ranking of #9, Bob Jones University did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s list. Bob Jones University is a small school located in Greenville, South Carolina that handed out 4 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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South Carolina State University ranked #9 on this year’s Most Well Attended Special Ed Major in South Carolina for a Master’s list. Located in Orangeburg, South Carolina, this small public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s special ed students in 2020-2021.
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