2024 Best Early Childhood Education Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania
7
Colleges in Pennsylvania
107
Master's Degrees
Early Childhood Education is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #50 most popular major in the country. 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 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Early Childhood Education Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 107 master's degrees in early childhood education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Early Childhood Education School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of early childhood education for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on early childhood education students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other early childhood education students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized early childhood education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for early childhood education students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Early Childhood Education Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Early Childhood Education Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list, to help you choose the best school for you.