2022 Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching is the 318th most popular major in the country with 2,068 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 126 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 68 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality kindergarten/preschool education and teaching programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the kindergarten/preschool education and teaching program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The kindergarten/preschool education and teaching school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region”.

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Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

#1

New Mexico Highlands University

Las Vegas, New Mexico

#2 in overall quality

$9,661 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico Highlands University landed the #1 spot on the list. New Mexico Highlands University is a small school located in Las Vegas, New Mexico that handed out 28 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

New Mexico Highlands University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $9,661 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching students per year to attend New Mexico Highlands University.

Read more about Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching at New Mexico Highlands University

#2

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$15,016 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 26 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to qualified students.

University of Arizona did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Arizona is $15,016 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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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