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2023 Best Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida

4 Colleges
$49,862 Avg Salary
$22,246 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Special Education Graduate Certificate School for You

Special Education is the #16 most popular major in Florida with 689 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Florida to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best educational experiences for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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2023 Best Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida

The colleges and universities below are the best for special ed majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Top Florida Schools for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Special Education

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Our 2023 rankings named University of Florida the best school in Florida for special education students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Gainesville, UF is a public college with a very large student population.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Central Florida helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best special education schools in Florida. UCF is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Orlando.

Special Ed majors at UCF take out an average of $19,471 in student loans while working on their Graduate Certificate.

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#3

University of North Florida

Jacksonville, FL

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Florida. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list. Located in the city of Jacksonville, UNF is a public college with a large student population.

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#4

Southeastern University

Lakeland, FL

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Southeastern University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Special Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list. Located in the medium-sized city of Lakeland, SEU is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

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Best Special Education Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Special Education Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 1,110
Georgia 398
North Carolina 194
Tennessee 146
Kentucky 428
Louisiana 82
Alabama 248
South Carolina 118
Mississippi 216
Arkansas 304
West Virginia 41

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
Educational Administration 45,458
Teacher Education Grade Specific 34,451
General Education 21,189
Teacher Education Subject Specific 20,616
Curriculum & Instruction 19,784

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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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