2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Disability Studies

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Disability Studies Schools for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Disability Studies is the 943rd most popular major in the country with 257 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 49 disability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great disability studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the disability studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Disability Studies Schools for a Master’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Disability Studies Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree disability studies students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Disability Studies

#1

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$27,036 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Disability Studies Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Illinois at Chicago is a large public school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 1 masters’s disability studies degrees in 2019-2020.

UIC also made our “Best Disability Studies Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Chicago are $27,036, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Disability Studies at UIC

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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