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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 46 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 22 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region”.

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

1

Emporia State University
Emporia, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emporia State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Emporia, Kansas, and it awarded 22 masters’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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 Emporia State University Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Report

2

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

#25 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Northern Iowa. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and it awarded 0 masters’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Northern Iowa 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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