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2022 Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
107 Degrees Awarded
$16,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,068 people earned their degree in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching, making the major the 318th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 476 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 107 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent kindergarten/preschool education and teaching programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the kindergarten/preschool education and teaching program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Purdue University Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, Indiana
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University Fort Wayne landed the #1 spot on the list. Purdue University Fort Wayne is a medium-sized public school situated in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It awarded 5 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at PFW, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $10,912 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students with aid per year to attend PFW.

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#2

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, Illinois
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Illinois University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Charleston, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

EIU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Eastern Illinois University is $14,607 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students with aid.

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#3

Shawnee State University

Portsmouth, Ohio
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Shawnee State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Shawnee State University is a small school located in Portsmouth, Ohio that handed out 4 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

Shawnee State University also took the #5 spot in our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $16,320 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching students with aid per year to attend Shawnee State University.

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#4

University of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Toledo. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. University of Toledo is located in Toledo, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 46 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to qualified students.

University of Toledo also made our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend University of Toledo is $17,630 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students with aid.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. UC is a large school located in Cincinnati, Ohio that handed out 37 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UC is $21,843 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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