2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching in Illinois

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 “Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Other Special Education & Teaching is the 418th most popular major in the country with 1,227 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Illinois, there were 20 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 13 other special education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other special education and teaching. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular other special education and teaching programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in Illinois for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in Illinois for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Special Education & Teaching in Illinois

1

Trinity Christian College
Palos Heights, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in Illinois for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity Christian College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Palos Heights, Illinois, and it awarded 8 masters’s other special education and teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Trinity Christian College Other Special Education & Teaching Report

2

Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Roosevelt University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Special Ed Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s other special education and teaching degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

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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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