2025 Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Nebraska

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in early childhood education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #32 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Nebraska 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 16 bachelor's degrees in early childhood education during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on early childhood education students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of early childhood education students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• 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.

More Ways to Rank Early Childhood Education Schools

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 Nebraska list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

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

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in early childhood education.

Top Nebraska Schools for a Bachelor's in Child development

1

Concordia University, Nebraska
Seward, NE

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

7 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Concordia University, Nebraska if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. Concordia University, Nebraska is a small private not-for-profit university located in the town of Seward.More information about a bachelor’s in early childhood education from Concordia University, Nebraska

2

Peru State College
Peru, NE

5 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Peru State College if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. Peru State is a small public college located in the remote area of Peru.More information about a bachelor’s in early childhood education from Peru State College

Best Early Childhood Education Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Early Childhood Education Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	475	266
Minnesota	446	212
Iowa	403	83
Kansas	352	36
North Dakota	251	36
South Dakota	237	60

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Rankings in Majors Related to Child development

Early Childhood Education is one of 13 different types of Teacher Education Grade Specific programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Elementary Education	511
Secondary Education	126
Teacher Education	34
Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching	20

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.