Education

Special Education and Teaching

Lamar University · Beaumont, TX

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$18,482Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded5Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Doctoral · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$70,736
Education · national$78,343

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · doctoral

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $64,121–$77,095.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Doctoral outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
University of Nebraska at OmahaEducational Administration and Supervision$84,653
Stephen F Austin State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$70,456
East Tennessee State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$70,009
Virginia State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$63,005
University of Northern ColoradoEducational Administration and Supervision$64,493
Indiana State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$94,408
Jackson State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods$54,974
South Carolina State UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$74,576
University of Louisiana at LafayetteEducational Administration and Supervision$60,161
Texas A & M University-CommerceEducational Administration and Supervision$71,015
Kean UniversityEducational Administration and Supervision$116,679
University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeEducational Administration and Supervision$74,576
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗