2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.

Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching is the 288th most popular major in the country with 2,450 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 694 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching. That schools that top this list have a program in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Toledo. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Toledo is a public institution located in Toledo, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Toledo Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Report

2

Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#25 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the #2 spot on the list. Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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

Full Loyola University Chicago Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching

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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