2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region

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In 2021-2022, 2,913 people earned their degree in kindergarten/preschool education & teaching, making the major the 288th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 45 kindergarten/preschool education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 kindergarten/preschool education & teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Plains States Region

1

Emporia State University
Emporia, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emporia State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Emporia, Kansas, and it awarded 20 masters’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching at ESU

2

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

#25 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, this medium-sized public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching at UNI

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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