2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 7,993 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The child development school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$19,188 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region list. Birmingham, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s child development degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

UAB also took the #1 spot in our “Best Early Childhood Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Alabama at Birmingham are $19,188.

Read full report on Early Childhood Education at University of Alabama at Birmingham

#2

East Tennessee State University

Johnson City, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$25,679 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Tennessee State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region list. ETSU is a fairly large school located in Johnson City, Tennessee that handed out 1 doctorate’s child development degrees in 2019-2020.

ETSU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Early Childhood Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at ETSU are $25,679, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Early Childhood Education at East Tennessee State University

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education

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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