Special Education at The City College of New York

If you plan to study special education, take a look at what The City College of New York has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

CCNY is located in New York, New York and approximately 15,227 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 118 students received their master's degree in special ed.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Special Education section at the bottom of this page.

CCNY Special Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Special Ed

Online Classes Are Available at CCNY

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? CCNY offers distance education options for special ed at the following degree levels:

CCNY Special Education Rankings

Special Ed Student Demographics at CCNY

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the special ed majors at The City College of New York.

CCNY Special Education Master’s Program

Of the 118 students who graduated with a master’s in special ed from CCNY in 2021, 31% were men and 69% were women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 14% men graduate in special ed each year. CCNY does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 17% more men than average.

In the special ed master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 64% of degree recipients. That is 36% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The City College of New York with a master's in special ed.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	24
Hispanic or Latino	45
White	40
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Educational Administration
• Teacher Education Grade Specific
• Multilingual Education
• Teacher Education Subject Specific
• Teaching English or French

Careers That Special Ed Grads May Go Into

A degree in special ed can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for The City College of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Kindergarten or Elementary School Special Education Teachers	18,790	$77,840
Special Education Professors	17,420	$86,330
Middle School Special Education Teachers	10,970	$83,050
Special Education Preschool Teachers	4,860	$83,010
Interpreters and Translators	3,300	$68,940

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Elsie140 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.