2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Disability Studies

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 for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 348 people earned their degree in disability studies, making the major the 899th most popular in the United States.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 disability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Disability Studies

1

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Top 25% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major. University of Illinois at Chicago is a public institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Disability Studies at UIC

2

National Louis University
Chicago, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National Louis University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major list. This medium-sized school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s disability studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full NLU Disability Studies Report

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.

Credits

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