2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Disability Studies in the Great Lakes Region

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Disability Studies is the 899th most popular major in the country with 348 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 100 disability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 disability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in disability studies. That schools that top this list have a program in disability studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree disability studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Disability Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1

Aurora University
Aurora, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Aurora University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Aurora University is located in Aurora, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s disability studies degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Aurora University Disability Studies Report

2

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Chicago. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s disability studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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 Disability Studies at UIC

3

University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Toledo. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Toledo, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s disability studies students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Toledo Disability Studies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Disability Studies

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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