General Special Education at East Carolina University

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

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and approximately 28,798 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.

ECU General Special Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Teaching Students with Disabilities

Online Classes Are Available at ECU

Online courses are a good option for students who need a more flexible schedule that allows them to pursue an education when and where they want. Whether you're going to school part-time or full-time, you may find distance education the right choice for you.

For those who are interested in distance learning, ECU does offer online courses in teaching students with disabilities for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

ECU General Special Education Rankings

The teaching students with disabilities major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Special Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Teaching Students with Disabilities Student Demographics at ECU

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

ECU General Special Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 9% of teaching students with disabilities bachelor's degrees went to men and 91% went to women.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in teaching students with disabilities at ECU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Education/Teaching of Individuals with Specific Learning Disabilities
• Education/Teaching of Individuals with Autism
• Education/Teaching of Individuals with Emotional Disturbances
• Education/Teaching of Individuals with Multiple Disabilities
• Other Special Education & Teaching

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 NC, the home state for East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Kindergarten or Elementary School Special Education Teachers	7,080	$47,760
Special Education Professors	4,350	$48,820
Middle School Special Education Teachers	2,950	$49,180
Special Education Preschool Teachers	580	$50,490
Special Education Teachers	70	$45,670

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.