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2022 Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
28 Degrees Awarded
$15,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor's in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Early Childhood Education is the 34th most popular major in the country with 31,017 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Nebraska, there were 83 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,068 and $24,613 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in early childhood education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great early childhood education 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 early childhood education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska bachelor’s degree child development students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in Nebraska (With Aid)

#1

Wayne State College

Wayne, Nebraska
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Wayne, Nebraska, this small public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s child development students in 2019-2020.

WSC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. It costs about $13,765 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Child development students with aid per year to attend WSC.

Read more about Early Childhood Education at WSC

#2

College of Saint Mary

Omaha, Nebraska
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Saint Mary. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid. College of Saint Mary is located in Omaha, Nebraska and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s child development degrees to qualified students.

Saint Mary also made our “Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $14,325 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Child development students with aid per year to attend College of Saint Mary.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Saint Mary Early Childhood Education Report

#3

Bellevue University

Bellevue, Nebraska
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellevue University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid list. Bellevue, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s child development degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Bellevue University also made our “Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for Bellevue University is $15,616 for nebraska bachelor’s degree child development students with aid.

Full Bellevue University Early Childhood Education Report

#4

Peru State College

Peru, Nebraska
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Peru State College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Peru, Nebraska, this small public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s child development students in 2019-2020.

Peru State also took the #5 spot in our “Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Peru State is $14,058 for nebraska bachelor’s degree child development students with aid.

Full Peru State College Early Childhood Education Report

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Concordia University, Nebraska landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Seward, Nebraska, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s child development students in 2019-2020.

Concordia University, Nebraska also took the #1 spot in our “Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Concordia University, Nebraska is $20,763 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Child development students with aid.

Read full report on Early Childhood Education at Concordia University, Nebraska

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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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