2025 Best Early Childhood Education Schools in Connecticut
3Colleges in Connecticut
331Child 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.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of early childhood education. Combined, these schools handed out 331 degrees in early childhood education to qualified students.
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 Connecticut list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Early Childhood Education in Connecticut
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.
Every student pursuing a degree in early childhood education needs to take a look at Central Connecticut State University. CCSU is a moderately-sized public university located in the large suburb of New Britain. This university ranks 14th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 10 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at CCSU in the most recent year we have data available.
Southern Connecticut State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in early childhood education. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, SCSU is a public university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #657 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means SCSU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 45 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at SCSU in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in early childhood education needs to take a look at Eastern Connecticut State University. Located in the town of Willimantic, ECSU is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 15th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 30 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at ECSU in the most recent data year.
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).
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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.
