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General Special Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

General Special Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and has a total student population of 11,366.

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.

SIUC General Special Education Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Teaching Students with Disabilities

SIUC General Special Education Rankings

The teaching students with disabilities major at SIUC 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 SIUC

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

SIUC General Special Education Bachelor’s Program

92% Women
31% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 8% of teaching students with disabilities bachelor's degrees went to men and 92% went to women.

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About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in teaching students with disabilities at SIUC are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities in its teaching students with disabilities bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 17
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

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 Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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