2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in District of Columbia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across District of Columbia, there were 72 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 5 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree elementary teaching students.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in District of Columbia

1

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in District of Columbia. This medium-sized school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s elementary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Elementary Education at CUA

2

University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the District of Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s elementary teaching students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Elementary Education at University of the District of Columbia

3

Trinity Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#7 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity Washington University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in District of Columbia. Trinity Washington University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s elementary teaching degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Elementary Education at Trinity College

4

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in District of Columbia list. Howard University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s elementary teaching degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Howard University Elementary Education Report

5

American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in District of Columbia. This fairly large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s elementary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full American University Elementary Education Report

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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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