General Special Education at SUNY Empire State College

If you are interested in studying general special education, you may want to check out the program at SUNY Empire State College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SUNY Empire is located in Saratoga Springs, New York and approximately 10,724 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.

SUNY Empire General Special Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Teaching Students with Disabilities

SUNY Empire General Special Education Rankings

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Teaching Students with Disabilities Student Demographics at SUNY Empire

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the teaching students with disabilities majors at SUNY Empire State College.

SUNY Empire General Special Education Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 students graduated with a master's degree in teaching students with disabilities from SUNY Empire. About 13% were men and 88% were women.

Of the students who received a teaching students with disabilities master's degree from SUNY Empire, 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 11% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
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 NY, the home state for SUNY Empire State College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Kindergarten or Elementary School Special Education Teachers	18,790	$77,840
Special Education Professors	17,420	$86,330
Middle School Special Education Teachers	10,970	$83,050
Special Education Preschool Teachers	4,860	$83,010

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 DanielPenfield under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.