2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in North Carolina

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Early Childhood Education is the 34th most popular major in the country with 32,920 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across North Carolina, there were 2,921 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,453 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in early childhood education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their early childhood education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in North Carolina”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in North Carolina

1

Shaw University
Raleigh, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Shaw University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in North Carolina. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s child development degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full Shaw University Early Childhood Education Report

2

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina

#11 overall quality in North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a fairly large school located in Greensboro, North Carolina that handed out 22 masters’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Early Childhood Education at UNC Greensboro

3

University of Mount Olive
Mount Olive, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mount Olive. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in North Carolina. Mount Olive, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s child development degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Early Childhood Education at University of Mount Olive

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’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

• *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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