2025 Best Early Childhood Education Schools in North Dakota
3Colleges in North Dakota
87Child development Degrees Awarded
Ranked #34 in popularity, early childhood education is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Early Childhood Education Schools in North Dakota ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 87 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for early childhood education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The child development school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Early Childhood Education Schools in North Dakota.
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Best Schools for Early Childhood Education in North Dakota
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the child development degree levels they offer.
Any student who is interested in early childhood education has to look into University of North Dakota. Located in the city of Grand Forks, UND is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #335 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UND is a great university overall.
There were about 27 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at UND in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Minot State University if you wish to pursue a degree in early childhood education. MSU is a small public university located in the city of Minot. This university ranks 8th out of 12 schools for overall quality in the state of North Dakota.
There were about 15 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at MSU in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in early childhood education needs to take a look at Mayville State University. Mayville State University is a small public university located in the remote area of Mayville. This university ranks 9th out of 12 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Dakota.
There were about 12 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at Mayville State University 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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