2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Nebraska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Nebraska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Elementary Education is the 17th most popular major in the country with 43,003 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Nebraska, there were 652 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 41 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,713 and $18,510 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Nebraska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in elementary education. That schools that top this list have a program in elementary education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Nebraska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Nebraska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in Nebraska

1

Northeast Community College
Norfolk, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeast Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Nebraska. Norfolk, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s elementary teaching degrees to 34 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Elementary Education at Northeast Community College

2

Western Nebraska Community College
Scottsbluff, Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Nebraska Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Nebraska. WNCC is a small public school situated in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. It awarded 7 associates’s elementary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Elementary Education at WNCC

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Elementary 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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