General Special Education at Drexel University

If you plan to study general special education, take a look at what Drexel University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Drexel is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and approximately 23,589 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Special Education section at the bottom of this page.

Drexel General Special Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Teaching Students with Disabilities

Online Classes Are Available at Drexel

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Drexel offers distance education options for teaching students with disabilities at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Drexel General Special Education Rankings

Teaching Students with Disabilities Student Demographics at Drexel

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the teaching students with disabilities majors at Drexel University.

Drexel General Special Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 25% of teaching students with disabilities master's degrees went to men and 75% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 13% men graduate in teaching students with disabilities each year. Drexel does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 12% more men than average.

Of the students who received a teaching students with disabilities master's degree from Drexel, 63% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the teaching students with disabilities master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 38% of degree recipients. That is 10% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Drexel University with a master's in teaching students with disabilities.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Education/Teaching of Individuals with Autism
• Education/Teaching of Individuals with Emotional Disturbances
• Elementary Special Education
• Education/Teaching of Individuals in Secondary Special Education Programs

Careers That Teaching Students with Disabilities Grads May Go Into

A degree in teaching students with disabilities can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Drexel University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Special Education Professors	8,510	$63,260
Kindergarten or Elementary School Special Education Teachers	6,010	$66,860
Middle School Special Education Teachers	2,390	$69,040
Special Education Preschool Teachers	570	$54,160
Special Education Teachers	100	$66,780

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.