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2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Child development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Child development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 32,920 people earned their degree in early childhood education, making the major the 34th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 3,429 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in early childhood education.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Child development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Child development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

Teachers College at Columbia University
New York, New York

#15 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Teachers College at Columbia University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Child development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Teachers College is a private not-for-profit institution located in New York, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.

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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

*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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