2024 Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Montana

Early Childhood Education is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #32 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Montana to determine which ones were the best for early childhood education students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 59 bachelor's degrees in early childhood education during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to early childhood education students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other early childhood education students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized early childhood education related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for early childhood education students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Early Childhood Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Montana list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Early Childhood Education in Montana

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in early childhood education.

Top Montana Schools for a Bachelor's in Child development

1

The University of Montana - Western
Dillon, MT

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

30 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in early childhood education needs to check out The University of Montana - Western. Located in the remote town of Dillon, Montana Western is a public university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in early childhood education from The University of Montana - Western

2

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT

17 Annual Graduates

Montana State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. MSU Bozeman is a fairly large public university located in the town of Bozeman.More information about a bachelor’s in early childhood education from Montana State University

Best Early Childhood Education Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Early Childhood Education Schools in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	415	59
Colorado	316	165
Idaho	312	42
Wyoming	95	0

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Early Childhood Education Related Rankings by Major

One of 13 majors within the Teacher Education Grade Specific area of study, Early Childhood Education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Child development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Elementary Education	276
Secondary Education	7

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Vgrigas. More about our data sources and methodologies.