Special Education at Touro College

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

Touro is located in New York, New York and approximately 11,699 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 635 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.

Touro Special Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Special Ed

Touro Special Education Rankings

Special Ed Student Demographics at Touro

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the special ed majors at Touro College.

Touro Special Education Master’s Program

Of the 635 students who earned a master's degree in Special Education from Touro in 2020-2021, 15% were men and 85% were women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 14% men graduate in special ed each year. Touro does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 1% more men than average.

Of the students who received a special ed master's degree from Touro, 63% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the special ed master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 32% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	28
Black or African American	80
Hispanic or Latino	81
White	399
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	45

Related Majors

• Other Education
• Student Counseling
• Instructional Media Design
• Teaching English or French
• Teacher Education Subject Specific

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 Touro College.

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 Matthew G. Bisanz under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.