2023 Schools Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other special education and teaching. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other special education and teaching program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

1

University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas

$48,614 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,103 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St. Thomas landed the #1 spot on the list. UST is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 47 ’s other special education and teaching 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 full report on Other Special Education & Teaching at UST

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

$39,113 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,041 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools 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. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s other special education and teaching degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Other Special Education & Teaching at UCO

3

Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Durant, Oklahoma

$43,234 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,788 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeastern Oklahoma State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools Highly Focused on Other Special Ed Major in the Southwest Region. Southeastern Oklahoma State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Durant, Oklahoma. It awarded 3 ’s other special education and teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Southeastern Oklahoma State University 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

• *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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