2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the New England Region

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Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching is the 288th most popular major in the country with 2,913 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the New England region, there were 148 kindergarten/preschool education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 kindergarten/preschool education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in kindergarten/preschool education & teaching. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their kindergarten/preschool education & teaching program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the New England Region

1

Westfield State University
Westfield, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Westfield State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the New England Region list. Westfield State University is a small school located in Westfield, Massachusetts that handed out 32 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching at Westfield State University

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Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Connecticut State University landed the #2 spot on the list. New Britain, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Central Connecticut State University Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Report

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Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the New England Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching at RIC

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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