2025 Best General Special Education Associate Degree Schools
2Colleges in the United States
75Associate Degrees
General Special Education is about average in terms of popularity for associate degrees programs. That is, it ranks #459 out of the 1020 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of general special education. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 75 associate degrees in general special education during the <nil> academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general special education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general special education students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general special education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general special education students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Special Education Associate Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
