2025 Best Early Childhood Education Schools in Utah
4Colleges in Utah
191Child development Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in early childhood education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #34 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Early Childhood Education Schools in Utah ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 191 degrees in early childhood education to qualified students.
Your choice of early childhood education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Early Childhood Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in Utah list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Early Childhood Education in Utah
The schools below may not offer all types of child development degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in early childhood education has to check out Utah State University. Located in the city of Logan, USU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 11 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were roughly 28 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at USU in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Brigham Young University - Provo if you want to pursue a degree in early childhood education. BYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Provo. A Best Colleges rank of #257 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means BYU is a great university overall.
There were about 24 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Weber State University if you wish to pursue a degree in early childhood education. WSU is a very large public university located in the city of Ogden. A Best Colleges rank of #389 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means WSU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 12 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at WSU in the most recent year we have data available.
Utah Valley University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in early childhood education. Located in the city of Orem, UVU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were roughly 104 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at UVU 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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Your choice of early childhood education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Early Childhood Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
