by our College Data Analytics Team
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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 2,450 people earned their degree in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching, making the major the 288th most popular in the United States.
Across Illinois, there were 14 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 14 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in Illinois” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in Illinois” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in Illinois”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Illinois University landed the #1 spot on the list. EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in Illinois. Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Loyola Chicago Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Xavier University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in Illinois. SXU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 0 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Park University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in Illinois. North Park is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full North Park Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Report
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