2023 Best Value Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Special Education Graduate Certificate School for You
In 2020-2021, special education students earned 1,536 degrees and certificates from a Texas school, making the subject the 5th in the state.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.
The Best Value Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 6 schools in Texas to see which ones offered the best value graduate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Special Education Graduate Certificate Colleges.
Best Texas Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Special Education
Our analysis found Texas Tech University to be the best value school for special education students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Texas. Texas Tech is a very large public school located in the city of Lubbock.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $9,518 per year.
Texas Tech also took the #3 spot in our Best Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas rankings.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Lamar University is a great value for special education students working on their graduate certificate. Lamar University is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Beaumont.
Lamar University graduate students pay an average of $8,411 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Lamar University is ranked #5 for overall quality for special ed in Texas.
Out of the 6 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Denton, UNT is a public college with a very large student population.
UNT graduate students pay an average of $8,256 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Out of the 6 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Denton, TWU is a public college with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at TWU are $7,704 a year.
Read full report on Special Education at Texas Woman’s University
Out of the 6 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public school with a very large student population.
Texas State graduate students pay an average of $9,060 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
The University of Texas at San Antonio ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas list. UTSA is a very large public school located in the large city of San Antonio.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UTSA are $9,479 per year.
Read full report on Special Education at The University of Texas at San Antonio
Best Value Special Education Colleges in the Southwest Region
Explore all the Best Value Special Education Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Arizona | 3,941 |
New Mexico | 144 |
Oklahoma | 101 |
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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 6 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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