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2023 Most Popular Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools in Utah

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$91,539 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Special Education Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, special education students earned 1,507 degrees and certificates from an Utah school, making the subject the 5th in the state.

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Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Most Popular Special Education Doctor's Degree Schools in Utah to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Utah to see which ones were the most popular doctor's degree programs for teaching students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Special Education program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for special ed majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

#1

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Our 2023 rankings named University of Utah the most popular school in Utah for special education students working on their doctor’s degree. U of U is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City.

Read full report on Special Education at University of Utah

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Utah State University is a great place for special education students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the small city of Logan, USU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Women make up 67% of the special ed majors at the school.

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State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 340
Idaho 81
Wyoming 0
Montana 22

Special Education is one of 14 different types of teaching programs to choose from.

Special Ed Concentrations

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

Majors Similar to Special Ed

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 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to woodleywonderworks.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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