2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,227 people earned their degree in other special education and teaching, making the major the 418th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 86 other special education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 53 other special education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other special education and teaching. That schools that top this list have a program in other special education and teaching in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree other special ed students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

1

University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of St. Thomas. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region. UST is a private not-for-profit institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 47 masters’s 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%.

Full University of St. Thomas Other Special Education & Teaching Report

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school awarded 6 degrees to qualified masters’s other special education and teaching students in 2020-2021.

Full UCO Other Special Education & Teaching Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching

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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