2022 Best Value Other Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Other Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,333 people earned their degree in other special education and teaching, making the major the 273rd most popular in the United States.

Across Indiana, there were 1,101 other special education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 50 other special education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,620 and $24,786 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other special education and teaching. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other special education and teaching programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other special education and teaching program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Other Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching in Indiana

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$13,986 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana list. Purdue University - Main Campus is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 26 bachelors’s other special education and teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue also made our “Best Other Special Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Purdue University - Main Campus is $13,986 for Indiana Bachelor’s Degree Other Special Ed students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Full Purdue University - Main Campus Other Special Education & Teaching Report

#2

University of Southern Indiana

Evansville, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$13,437 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Indiana. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Other Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana list. This fairly large school is located in Evansville, Indiana, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s other special education and teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

USI also made our “Best Other Special Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $13,437 for Indiana Bachelor’s Degree Other Special Ed students per year to attend USI.

The low student loan default rate of 5.0% 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%.

Read full report on Other Special Education & Teaching at USI

#3

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

Saint Mary of the Woods, Indiana

#3 in overall quality

$15,669 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Other Special Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Indiana. SMWC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Mary of the Woods, Indiana. It awarded 7 bachelors’s other special education and teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

SMWC also took the #3 spot in our “Best Other Special Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking. It costs about $15,669 for Indiana Bachelor’s Degree Other Special Ed students per year to attend Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full SMWC Other Special Education & Teaching Report

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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