2024 Best Early Childhood Education Schools in Delaware
2Colleges in Delaware
61Child development Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in early childhood education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #34 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Early Childhood Education Schools in Delaware ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 61 degrees in early childhood education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Early Childhood Education Schools in Delaware list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Early Childhood Education in Delaware
The schools below may not offer all types of child development degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Delaware is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in early childhood education. UD is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Newark. A Best Colleges rank of #118 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UD is a great university overall.
There were approximately 49 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at UD in the most recent data year.
Delaware State University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in early childhood education. Located in the small city of Dover, Del State is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 4th out of 4 schools for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were about 10 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at Del State in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in early childhood education has to check out Delaware Technical Community College - Terry. Delaware Tech is a fairly large public college located in the small city of Dover. This college ranks 2nd out of 4 schools for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were about 2 early childhood education students who graduated with this degree at Delaware Tech in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.
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