2025 Best Early Childhood Education Schools in New Jersey
3Colleges in New Jersey
155Child development Degrees Awarded
Early Childhood Education is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #34 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 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for early childhood education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 155 degrees in early childhood education annually.
The child development program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Early Childhood Education rankings. For our Best Overall Early Childhood Education School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Early Childhood Education Rankings by Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Early Childhood Education Schools in New Jersey list, to help you choose the best school for you.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
Best Schools for Early Childhood Education in New Jersey
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the child development degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat The College of New Jersey if you want to pursue a degree in early childhood education. TCNJ is a medium-sized public college located in the suburb of Ewing. A Best Colleges rank of #200 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means TCNJ is a great college overall.
There were approximately 20 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at TCNJ in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat William Paterson University of New Jersey if you wish to pursue a degree in early childhood education. Located in the large suburb of Wayne, William Paterson University is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 12th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were approximately 42 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at William Paterson University in the most recent data year.
Camden County College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in early childhood education. Camden County College is a moderately-sized public college located in the suburb of Blackwood. This college ranks 33rd out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 18 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at Camden County College in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
The child development program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Early Childhood Education rankings. For our Best Overall Early Childhood Education School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
