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General Special Education at Texas Tech University

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General Special Education at Texas Tech University

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

Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and has a total student population of 40,322.

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.

Texas Tech General Special Education Degrees Available

  • Master’s Degree in Teaching Students with Disabilities
  • Doctorate Degree in Teaching Students with Disabilities

Online Classes Are Available at Texas Tech

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

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

Texas Tech 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.

There were 5 students who received their doctoral degrees in teaching students with disabilities, making the school the #7 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Teaching Students with Disabilities Student Demographics at Texas Tech

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

Texas Tech General Special Education Master’s Program

94% Women
37% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The teaching students with disabilities program at Texas Tech awarded 112 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 6% of these degrees went to men with the other 94% going to women.

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Of the students who received a teaching students with disabilities master's degree from Texas Tech, 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 37% 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 Texas Tech University with a master's in teaching students with disabilities.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 13
Hispanic or Latino 22
White 69
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

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 TX, the home state for Texas Tech University.

Occupation Jobs in TX Average Salary in TX
Kindergarten or Elementary School Special Education Teachers 13,470 $57,770
Special Education Professors 12,970 $58,570
Middle School Special Education Teachers 7,620 $56,960
Special Education Teachers 1,460 $53,840
Special Education Preschool Teachers 1,030 $51,010

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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