2025 Best General Special Education Schools in Rhode Island
3Colleges in Rhode Island
106Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
General Special Education is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #36 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for general special education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 degrees in general special education annually.
Your choice of general special education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Special Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Special Education Schools in Rhode Island list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Special Education in Rhode Island
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the teaching students with disabilities degree levels they offer.
Top Rhode Island Schools in Teaching Students with Disabilities
35Teaching Students with Disabilities Degrees Awarded
Every student who is interested in general special education has to look into Providence College. Located in the midsize city of Providence, Providence is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #132 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Providence is a great college overall.
There were approximately 35 general special education students who graduated with this degree at Providence in the most recent data year.
Salve Regina University is a good option for students pursuing a degree in general special education. Located in the suburb of Newport, Salve Regina is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 440th out of 2,152 schools for overall quality nationwide.
There were roughly 18 general special education students who graduated with this degree at Salve Regina in the most recent year we have data available.
Roger Williams University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in general special education. Located in the large suburb of Bristol, RWU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 7th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were roughly 18 general special education students who graduated with this degree at RWU in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
Your choice of general special education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Special Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
