2022 Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching is the 318th most popular major in the country with 2,068 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Massachusetts, there were 147 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,887 and $24,387 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great kindergarten/preschool education and teaching programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the kindergarten/preschool education and teaching program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts bachelor’s degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching (Income $30-$48k) in Massachusetts

#1

Westfield State University

Westfield, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$14,071 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Westfield State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Westfield State University is located in Westfield, Massachusetts and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 45 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to qualified students.

Westfield also took the #1 spot in our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. It costs about $14,071 for Massachusetts Bachelor’s Degree Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Westfield State University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching (Income $30-$48k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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