General Special Education at Saint Xavier University

What traits are you looking for in a teaching students with disabilities school? To help you decide if Saint Xavier University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's teaching students with disabilities program.

SXU is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 3,764 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.

SXU General Special Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Teaching Students with Disabilities

SXU General Special Education Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Teaching Students with Disabilities Student Demographics at SXU

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

SXU General Special Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 46% of teaching students with disabilities master's degrees went to men and 54% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 14% men graduate in teaching students with disabilities each year. SXU does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 32% more men than average.

Of the students who received a teaching students with disabilities master's degree from SXU, 62% 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 12% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

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 IL, the home state for Saint Xavier University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Kindergarten or Elementary School Special Education Teachers	9,670	$63,740
Special Education Professors	8,440	$69,840
Middle School Special Education Teachers	3,420	$63,330
Special Education Preschool Teachers	960	$57,280
Special Education Teachers	880	$54,120

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 Brendanriley under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.