2024 Best Elementary Education Schools in Delaware
4Colleges in Delaware
367Elementary Teaching Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in elementary education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #17 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Delaware to determine which ones were the best for elementary education students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 367 degrees in elementary education to qualified students.
The elementary teaching program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Elementary Education rankings. We derive our Best Overall Elementary 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 Elementary Education Schools in Delaware list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the elementary teaching degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Delaware is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in elementary education. UD is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Newark. A Best Colleges rank of #118 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UD is a great university overall.
There were about 156 elementary education students who graduated with this degree at UD in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Delaware Technical Community College - Terry if you wish to pursue a degree in elementary education. Delaware Tech is a fairly large public college located in the city of Dover. A Best Colleges rank of #492 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Delaware Tech is a great college overall.
There were roughly 100 elementary education students who graduated with this degree at Delaware Tech in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in elementary education needs to check out Delaware State University. Located in the small city of Dover, Del State is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 4th out of 4 colleges for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were approximately 18 elementary education students who graduated with this degree at Del State in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Wilmington University if you want to pursue a degree in elementary education. Located in the suburb of New Castle, Wilmington University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 4 colleges for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were roughly 93 elementary education students who graduated with this degree at Wilmington University in the most recent year we have data available.
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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The elementary teaching program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Elementary Education rankings. We derive our Best Overall Elementary Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
