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2023 Best Value Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

52 Colleges
$23,163 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$91,539 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Special Education Doctor's Degree 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 52 schools in the United States to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for special ed students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

2023 Best Value Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States

Check out the special ed doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Illinois State University the best value school in the United States for special education students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Illinois State are $11,773 a year.

Illinois State also claimed a spot on our Best Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Special Education at Illinois State University

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value special education schools in the United States. SRU is a medium-sized public school located in the distant town of Slippery Rock.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at SRU are $18,216 per year.

Full Special Education at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Woman’s University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the midsize city of Denton, TWU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at TWU are $15,048 per year.

Read full report on Special Education at Texas Woman’s University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the medium-sized city of Denton, UNT is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNT are $15,600 per year.

Full Special Education at University of North Texas Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UW Seattle graduate students pay an average of $30,912 in tuition and fees each year.

UW Seattle not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list.

Full Special Education at University of Washington - Seattle Campus Report

#6

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

Texas Tech University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree special education programs. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

Texas Tech graduate students pay an average of $17,698 in tuition and fees each year.

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With a ranking of #7, Kennesaw State University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for special education students working on their doctor’s degree. KSU Georgia is a very large public school located in the suburb of Kennesaw.

KSU Georgia graduate students pay an average of $21,174 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, KSU Georgia is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list.

Full Special Education at Kennesaw State University Report

The University of Texas at Austin came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the city of Austin.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Austin are $22,944 per year.

Read full report on Special Education at The University of Texas at Austin

#9

University of Georgia

Athens, GA

With a ranking of #9, University of Georgia did quite well on this year’s best value schools for special education students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the medium-sized city of Athens, UGA is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UGA are $27,464 per year.

UGA excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list.

Read full report on Special Education at University of Georgia

With a ranking of #10, University of California - Berkeley did quite well on this year’s best value schools for special education students working on their doctor’s degree. UC Berkeley is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Berkeley.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UC Berkeley are $29,262 a year.

UC Berkeley excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Special Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list.

Full Special Education at University of California - Berkeley Report

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New England
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Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 14 majors within the teaching area of study, special education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Special Ed Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Special Education 24,497
Education/Teaching of Individuals in Early Childhood Special Education Programs 3,111
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Multiple Disabilities 1,789
Elementary Special Education 1,625
Other Special Education & Teaching 1,227
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Autism 1,133
Education/Teaching of Individuals in Secondary Special Education Programs 655
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Specific Learning Disabilities 540
Education/Teaching of the Gifted & Talented 504
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Speech or Language Impairments 415
Education of the Deaf 363
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Emotional Disturbances 226
Education/Teaching of Individuals Who are Developmentally Delayed 222
Education/Teaching of Individuals in Junior High/Middle School Special Education Programs 181
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Vision Impairments Including Blindness 134
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities 122
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Orthopedic & Other Physical Health Impairments 47
Education/Teaching of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries 1

Related Major Annual Graduates
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 25 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to woodleywonderworks.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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