2023 Best Value Special Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Special Education Basic Certificate School for You
With 36,792 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, special education is the #4 most popular major in the United States.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
The Best Value Special Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for special ed students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Special Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
Check out the special ed basic certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.
Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Special Education
Our analysis found Clarion University of Pennsylvania to be the best value school for special education students who want to pursue a basic certificate in the Middle Atlantic Region . Clarion University is a small public school located in the remote town of Clarion.
Clarion University undergraduate students pay an average of $16,052 in tuition and fees each year.
Clarion University not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Special Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend La Roche University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Special Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. La Roche is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Pittsburgh.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at La Roche are $31,570 a year.
Best Special Education Colleges by State
Explore the best special education schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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New Jersey | 799 |
Pennsylvania | 1,854 |
New York | 4,329 |
Maryland | 416 |
District of Columbia | 101 |
Delaware | 165 |
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Majors Related to Special Ed
One of 14 majors within the teaching area of study, special education has other similar majors worth exploring.
Special Ed Focus Areas
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Teacher Education Grade Specific | 110,226 |
Educational Administration | 46,469 |
Teacher Education Subject Specific | 43,297 |
General Education | 29,810 |
Curriculum & Instruction | 19,832 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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More about our data sources and methodologies.
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